Free Gaza

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/06/30/18604859.php


Free Gaza
by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Tuesday Jun 30th, 2009
The Free Gaza boat the "Spirit of Humanity" departed Cyprus at 7:30am on Monday, 29 July. Twenty-one human rights and solidarity workers representing eleven different countries were aboard. The passengers include Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. The ship also carries three tons of medical aid, children's toys, and rehabilitation and reconstruction kits for twenty family homes.




Over 2,400 homes were destroyed in Gaza during the Israeli massacre in December/January, 490 of them by F-16 airstrikes, as well as 30 mosques, 29 educational institutions, 29 medical centers, 10 charitable organizations, and 5 cement factories. Each kit carries a small amount of supplies for a single family, representing sectors of civil society currently being blockaded by Israel: Agriculture, Building & Reconstruction, Education, Electricity, Health, and Water & Sanitation. Although over 4 billion dollars in aid was promised to Gaza in the aftermath of the Israeli onslaught, little humanitarian aid and no reconstruction supplies have been allowed in.
Israel has seizes Human Rights Boat in International Waters. Human rights activists in custody - "Spirit of Humanity" was carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza - Nobel Prize Winner among seized activists. Please release the human rights