http://news.google.co.uk/news/search?um=1&cf=all&ned=uk&hl=en&q=gaza+convoy&cf=all&as_qdr=d&as_drrb=q
Viva Palestina convoy
- Official website http://www.vivapalestina.org/home.htm
- Other accounts
- Bob2Gaza: This blog has an uptodate and more hopeful report - official support from Turkey, but long journey back to Syria. http://bobgoestogazawithvivapalestina.blogspot.com/
- This is the email sent on 24 December confirming
- York
www.yorktogaza.blogspot.com
- York Press
- Bristol
- Bradford
- Telegraph & Argus
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/1881201.Joy_of_student_freed_in_Gaza/
Dec26: "Mercy mission from Bradford with 45 volunteers is set to cross the border from Egypt to Gaza"
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/4821013.__250_000_convoy_due_in_Gaza_today/
- Reading
http://readingpsc.org.uk/convoy/
http://readingpsc.org.uk/convoy/tony/
http://twitter.com/readingpsc/vp3
- (London)Derry
Craetive-i: "I do not need legal assistance as yet ..."
http://www.creative-i.info/2009/12/28/viva-palestina-it-is-very-late-chaos-around-the-french-embassy-roads-blocked/
Demotix (images)
http://www.demotix.com/news/212942/viva-palestina-aid-convoy-aqaba-jordan
AJE (AlJazeera)
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/12/200912281583520582.html
Video
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/12/2009122703616634537.html
Facebook: "85-year old holocaust survivor on hunger strike for Gaza
http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=6152447378
Mainstream blogs
- Huffington Post: "The government of Egypt is taking a spectacularly hard line against international solidarity efforts in support of civilians in Gaza ... It seems that any pretense of concern for the suffering of Palestinian civilians has been dropped ... (there is now) 100% cooperation from Egypt and its US and European patrons with Israel's program of punishing Gaza's population for the political crime of having elected Hamas in a democratic election .... Meanwhile there is largely a U.S. press blackout of these striking developments. ...
Small items in mainstream press
- New York Times and Washington Post (copied from Associated Press)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/26/AR2009122601153.html
- BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8431652.stm
Twitters
- Robert Naiman (Huffington Post)
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1439/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1951
- Zuber Hatia
El Diario Montanes
"Gaza aid convoy returns to Syria in order to reach Gaza via another route"
http://www.eldiariomontanes.es/agencias/20091228/mas-actualidad/sociedad/convoy-ayuda-gaza-vuelve-siria_200912281555.html
Other Images:
http://tweetphoto.com/7422272
- An interesting cross-border blog from Gaza and Sderot in Israel.
"Closed Zone" - how does Gaza appear to a child (animation) laila.elhaddad@gmail.com
http://www.gazamom.com/
Israel Press
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1138228.html
Yvonne Ridley
http://palestinevideo.blogspot.com/2009/12/r-interviews-viva-palestinas-kevin.html