Int´l activists sending medications to Gaza

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Source: CCTV.com | 12-30-2008 14:14

A group of international activists will try to defy an Israeli naval blockade and send a boat with medical supplies to Palestinians in Gaza. The vessel will also carry doctors and journalists.

International activists load boxes of medical supplies aboard a boat before setting sail for Gaza from the  Cypriot port of Larnaca, Cyprus, Monday, Dec. 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Dignity, the Free Gaza Movement's 20-meter yacht left Cyprus carrying up to four tons of medical supplies including bandages, splints and rubber gloves.

Free Gaza has already sent three doctors to Gaza to assist overrun hospitals and clinics. It's expected they could stay and work in Gaza for several weeks.

The group has successfully made five deliveries of aid by boat to Gaza since August. Organizers acknowledge the Israeli navy may try to stop the vessel but say the need for aid "outweighs the risks" of entering a war zone.

Former US Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate, Cynthia McKinney, is among the 16 passengers on board the boat. She's calling on US President-elect Barack Obama to speak out against the violence.

Cynthia Mckinney, Former US Congresswoman, said, "To the President-elect, that he one, say something about the harshest violence that is being visited on the Palestinian people in sixty years which is what is being reported. That the President-elect say something. Two, that the President-elect promote peace by discontinuing the transfer of these weapons of mass destruction that are being used in Israel."

Editor:Zhang Pengfei