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Tomorrow, George Galloway MP and hundreds of British volunteers will depart from London en route to Gaza over land with an aid convoy of over 100 donated vehicles packed with practical aid. This remarkable convoy, organised at short notice in response to the BBC's refusal to broadcast the Disasters Emergency Committee Appeal for Gaza, will be over a mile long and carry a million pounds' worth of aid raised in just four weeks.

Volunteers will drive vehicles donated from all over Britain to Westminster on Valentine’s Day to form the convoy which will then drive almost 5,000 miles together through France, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt where they will cross the border at Rafah into Gaza on 2nd March.

The convoy includes a fire engine, 12 ambulances, a boat and trucks filled with medicines, cash, tools, clothes, blankets and shoe-boxes filled with gifts for children. Each person travelling on the convoy is a self-financed British volunteer. The vehicles will be left with the people of Gaza; volunteers will fly home to the UK.

George Galloway said, “No-one will send a vehicle that is not filled with items including pyjamas, clothes and blankets. Millions of people in this country care deeply, and we are going to show that.”

The effort is being co-ordinated by the campaign group Viva Palestina and is supported by the Stop the War Coalition, the Anglo-Arab Organisation, several British trade unions and a large number of Muslim organisations.

Please help by making a financial contributionIn their darkest hour the people of Gaza must not be forgotten... Viva Palestina!Ilford HP5© mark kerrison