ASIA LIFELINE TO GAZA SHIP DENIED PERMISSION TO REACH AL-ARISH

The Asia Lifeline to Gaza ship carrying humanitarian supplies from Asia to the besieged residents of Gaza has been denied the permission to arrive in the Egyptian port of Al-Arish. The ship which started from the port of Latakia of Syria

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August 17, 2022

The Asia Lifeline to Gaza ship carrying humanitarian supplies from Asia to the besieged residents of Gaza has been denied the permission to arrive in the Egyptian port of Al-Arish. The ship which started from the port of Latakia of Syria has been stopped 2KMs far from Al-Arish Port in Egypt. The eight activists on board the ship had spent 13 hours without water and food on January 2. The condition of two among them was reported critical. The eight activists on board the ship are Ajit Sahi (Journalist), Shaheen K Moidunny (CAC member of Students Islamic Organisation of India), Brigadier Sudhir Savant (former MP), Aslam Khan (AISA, JNU Delhi) and one delegate each from Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Azerbaijan. Five Israeli naval vessels are tailing the ship carrying humanitarian supplies from Asia to Gaza.

The remaining delegates already reached Gaza in the morning of January 3 by air. The convoy, which set off from New Delhi on December 2, was scheduled to reach Gaza by December 27, a day ahead of the second anniversary of Israel’s 22-day war on Gaza.

Humanitarian supplies consist of medicines, ambulances, solar generators for electricity, etc. Once the ship reaches Al-Arish, the humanitarian supplies would be taken overland from Al-Arish to the Rafa crossing on the Egyptian Gaza border, and the possibility will be explored to make these supplies reach the besieged Palestinians.