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FreeGaza boat leaves Cyprus today with medical aid and doctors

Free Gaza Movement | 29.12.2008 13:21 | Anti-militarism | Palestine | Terror War | Liverpool

FreeGaza boat leaves Cyprus today (Monday 29th) with medical aid and doctors as well as Congresswoman and former US presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney and former Guantanamo Bay detainee and Al Jazeera reporter Sami al-Haj.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday 29th December 2008

Dignity Leaves for Gaza: Challenges World to "Stop this Madness!"

For more information, please contact:
(Gaza) Ewa Jasiewicz, +972 598 700 497 /  freelance@mailworks.org
(Cyprus) Lubna Masarwa +357 99 081 767 /  lubnna@gmail.com
(U.S.) Greta Berlin, +1 310 422 7242 /  iristulip@gmail.com

(Larnaca, Cyprus 29 December 2008) - There is a time when silence is
complicity and inaction is unacceptable. On Saturday, December 27, Israel
began Operation "Cast Lead," a military onslaught against the civilian
population of the Gaza Strip that has - so far - massacred more than
three-hundred men, women, and children, and seriously injured over a
thousand.

In response to Israeli butchery, the Free Gaza ship, the DIGNITY, will
depart Larnaca Port at approximately 5pm (UTC), on Monday, December 29,
bound for besieged Gaza. The ship is on an emergency mission carrying in
physicians, human rights workers and over three tons of desperately needed
medical supplies donated by the people of Cyprus. Coordinating with the
Gaza Ministry of Health, the doctors will be immediately posted to
overburdened hospitals and clinics upon their arrival.

We are not asking Israel for "permission" to go, and we will not stop
until the DIGNITY lands in Gaza. We are answering urgent calls from
hospitals and health care workers in Gaza by taking in three physicians
who will stay and work in Gaza for several weeks. We will hold Israel
responsible for the safety of our passengers and our cargo of emergency
medicine.

Even before the present Israeli blitzkrieg, Karen Koning Abu Zayd, head of
the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), asserted that, "Gaza
is on the threshold of becoming the first territory to be intentionally
reduced to a state of abject destitution, with the knowledge, acquiescence
and - some would say - encouragement of the international community."

Ewa Jasiewicz, a Free Gaza organizer living in Gaza, agreed with Abu Zayd,
saying: "Where is the United Nations? Where is the Arab League? Where is
the outrage against Israeli cruelty and Egyptian complicity? Every
hospital in Gaza is already overwhelmed. Israel is committing war crimes
here in Gaza, and words of condemnation are no longer enough. The world
must act now to stop this madness."

The Free Gaza Movement continues to do what the governments of the world
will not do - take direct action to defend the health, lives, and dignity
of 1.5 million Palestinians under siege in the Gaza Strip.

This catastrophe is still unfolding, and humanitarian needs in Gaza are
quite literally devastating. The world can no longer stay silent as the
Palestinian people are deliberately massacred, starved and humiliated. We
have to create a new consciousness that turns the practice of human rights
from rhetoric into reality. Palestinians have an inalienable right to
live, and the undeniable right to a life with dignity.

The passengers on this Free Gaza emergency delegation include:
* International humanitarian and human rights workers from Cyprus,
Australia, Ireland, Great Britain, Tunisia, and the United States.
* Doctors going to Gaza to volunteer in local hospitals, including Dr.
Elena Theoharous, surgeon and Member of Parliament from Cyprus.
* Journalists going to Gaza to report on the massacre, including
Al-Jazeera reporter Sami al-Haj, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay.
* The Hon. Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Congresswoman and Green Party
presidential candidate.

###########
The Free Gaza Movement, a human rights group, sent two boats to Gaza in
August 2008. These were the first international boats to land in the port
in 41 years. Since August, four more voyages were successful, taking
Parliamentarians, human rights workers, physicians, and other dignitaries
to witness the effects of Israel's draconian policies on the civilians of
Gaza.
 http://www.FreeGaza.org

Free Gaza Movement
- e-mail: friendsofgaza [at] gmail.com
- Homepage: http://www.freegaza.org

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