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Le convoi est entré à Rafah : Viva Palestina a brisé le siège !

Mercredi, 6 janvier 2010 - 22h01

mercredi 6 janvier 2010

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La détermination, le courage, la conviction de défendre une juste cause ont prévalu sur la force armée .

Puissent la Marche pour Gaza et le Convoi « Viva Palestina » constituer le début du réveil des consciences.

La Coordination de l’Appel de Strasbourg

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News Middle East

Aid convoy breaks Gaza siege

Palestinians threw stones at Egyptian forces across the border to protest the convoy’s delay [AFP]

A humanitarian aid convoy carrying food and medical supplies has arrived in the Gaza Strip nearly a month after it embarked from the UK.

Members of the much-delayed Viva Palestina convoy began passing through Egypt’s Rafah border crossing into Gaza on Wednesday, waving Palestinian flags and raising their hands in peace signs.

Al Jazeera’s Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Gaza, said the first wave of vehicles was greeted by Gaza’s Hamas leaders as well as members of a Turkish humanitarian organisation that aided in bringing the convoy to the strip.

« We had been expecting the arrival of the convoy amid much fanfare but it almost caught the Palestinians here by surprise, » he said.

« The doors suddenly flung open and within minutes the first batch of about 12 or so vehicles made their way from the Egyptian side to the Palestinians. »

More than 100 vehicles followed the first batch into Gaza shortly afterward, he said.