Scottish medical supplies to Gaza:
Medical aid van heads back home.
**Update**
- Alex Salmond, Scotland's First Minister, to urge Egyptian and Israeli authorities to allow the medicines to be delivered to Gaza.
Salmond in bid to help Scots take medical aid into Gaza (The Herald)
Salmond steps in over medical supplies red tape (Edinburgh Evening News)
- Two boats set sail from Cyprus to deliver humanitarian aid and in an attempt to break the siege of Gaza
- On Sunday 10 August demonstrations will take place in Cairo, Rafah-Egypt border and in Edinburgh
*Update*: from Eva Bartlett
(MONDAY August 4th)
'Today, Monday, 15 Palestinians were allowed through the crossing. All were either medical cases or supporting medical cases/having medical-related permission.
About as many were turned back from the border, not having the permission and coordination to pass through.
Khalil was summoned there to present to border officials his documents, specifically the document showing his customs permit from entry at Nuweiba.
He was then told that border officials know as much as he does; in other words, they are waiting for the authorization from Egyptian intelligence. Still.
There is still hope that the mounting pressure due to the Boat Solidarity action and Khalil's continued presence at the border, and the Sunday demonstrations in Rafah and Scotland, will amount to consent to open the Rafah border.'
June/July 2008
Khalil Al Niss and Linda Willis will take a van loaded with 1.5 tons of medical supplies from Scotland to Gaza, leaving from the Scottish Parliament at noon on Thursday, July 10th and arriving at the Rafah crossing in Egypt on Tuesday, July 15th. They will drive their precious cargo across Europe and the Middle East to Egypt’s border with Gaza, where Israel’s US- and EU- backed siege is causing critical shortages of all medical supplies, needless deaths and immense suffering.
Richard Falk, a noted Jewish-American and the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, has likened Israel’s cruel siege of Gaza to the behaviour of the Nazis. Archbishop Desmond Tutu recently visited Gaza and called Israel’s siege an ‘abomination’.Khalil is originally from Jerusalem, Linda is a Scottish nurse. They are both taking time off work to make the journey.Linda and Khalil need help of all kinds:
- medicines and medical supplies
- financial donations to buy medicine and desperately-needed spare parts for medical equipment. All donations to Nationwide account sort code 07-44-56, account number 13670627
- assistance and support along the way from Scotland to Gaza (see route map)
- letters to your Egyptian Embassy to urge that Khalil and Linda be allowed unimpeded access into Gaza with their humanitarian cargo
- any other skills or energy you can offer – fundraising of any kind, publicity, design
Contact Khalil & Linda -
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign: 0131 620 0052: scotlandtogaza@scottishpsc.org.uk
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