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Activists waiting Hope For Gaza Convoy |
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 For three days now we have
been waiting here in Port Said for the boat with its cargo of 12 fully equipped
ambulances and 40 trucks loaded with medical supplies and special needs
equipment.
Part of the 120-member
delegation has already left, brokenhearted, unable to enter Sinai, let alone
Gaza, and others are due to return to Europe in the next few days.
But some have stayed on,
among them Senator Fernando Rossi and 12 European Parliament members who joined
us yesterday in Port Said.
The ship is presently in
Libya and should be arriving in Port Said at the end of the week—that is, if
permitted by the Egyptian authorities, who have been playing a game of nerves
with us since our arrival
Dr. Arafat Abu Madi, who is
in charge of the convoy, wrote yesterday to British Prime Minister Gordon
Brown, asking him to put pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
to open all the border crossings immediately, to allow humanitarian aid and
reconstruction material into the Gaza Strip.
We really get the feeling
we are unwelcome in Egypt. Yes, here in Egypt, when you mention the blockade of
Gaza and the terrible predicament of the Palestinians--a situation in which
Egypt is playing an active part--you bring the wrath of the authorities down
upon you.
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