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Mile-long convoy takes aid to Gaza

Mark Blunden
16 Feb 2009


A humanitarian aid convoy led by George Galloway, Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, is on its way to Gaza.

A mile-long procession of 110 lorries, cars, ambulances and fire engines is undertaking a three-week, 5,000-mile overland journey.

It left Westminster on Friday with £1 million of bedding, clothes, nappies, food and medical equipment.

Mr Galloway called it "the biggest convoy of British vehicles to cross North Africa since Montgomery and the Eighth Army".

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George
i wish you and all your harding working volunteers a safey journey to Gaza.

keep up the good work, we need more people like you in this world.

zaffar Hussain

- Zaffar Hussain, London, 19/02/2009 13:44
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Well done Mr Galloway,a MP who has real passion based on his beliefs and is prepared to take action,a better example to others is hard to find.I wish you were my MP,better still this countrys PM. I wish you and the members of the convoy well.

- Kev, London-UK, 17/02/2009 08:26
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I have to agree with Marc from Harrow. The Hamas are notorious for diverting humanitarian aid to their own people. Let's hope this is not the case with this convoy.

- Dudley Piggott, Tbilisi, Georgia, 17/02/2009 08:07
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Good on ya George, you make me proud to be a Brit.

- J. Arno, Pattaya, Thailand, 16/02/2009 17:00
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I presume Mr Galloway has his laptop etc with him to enable him to keep up to date with his constituency business.

- Jim, London, 16/02/2009 14:30
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How come we never hear of why Egypt refuse to open their border with Gaza. What do the Arabs fear from their own people?

- James Wilson, Wellingborough, 16/02/2009 14:26
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Excellent news. We should send the navy to protect the seas around Gaza to ensure the Isrealis dont try to stop other aid shipsments to the people of Gaza. Im sick to death with how the world has to deal with the Isreali problems. The UN should sort Isreal out once and for all.

- Alan Rex, London, UK, 16/02/2009 13:31
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I wonder how much ends up in the hands of those who need it and how much in the hands of HAMAS.

- Marc, Harrow, UK, 16/02/2009 12:39
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