Viva Palestina aid convoy departs London for Gaza

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Viva Palestina aid convoy departs London for Gaza

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The Viva Palestina aid convoy, a 110-strong convoy of vehicles packed with practical aid and driven by self-financed British volunteers has departed London en route to Gaza.  This remarkable convoy, born of an idea by George Galloway MP, is over a mile long and carries almost a million pounds' worth of aid raised in just four weeks.

Travelling almost 5,000 miles, the convoy will pass through Belgium, France, Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, gathering momentum as it goes, before it crosses into Gaza at Rafah. Among the vehicles are a fire engine, twelve ambulances, a boat and trucks filled with medicines, cash, tools, clothes, blankets and gifts for children. All will be left to the people of Gaza, with the volunteers flying home to the UK.

George Galloway said, “Millions of people in this country care deeply and we are going to show that. Palestine is completely besieged. In any normal situation, the whole world would be airlifting aid to Gaza. After all, here's a million and a half people in the winter-time, sixty-one thousand of their houses destroyed, living in the rubble. Governments would normally be doing what we are doing and on a much larger scale and much more efficient. But because it's Palestine that doesn't happen, so we've had to fill the breach."