Brussels- May 31 – 2010
The “European Campaign to End the siege on Gaza,” Brussels-based, said that the Israeli side asked the fleet’s coalition, which was assaulted and its ships were seized along side with the arrest of hundreds of peace activists on board, to hand over a list of the aid items which was carried by the fleet under the pretext of “sorting them out”, although the Israeli side has seized ships and everything on board.
The European campaign, one of the founders of fleet’s coalition, warned that the Israeli side is trying to mislead the world on the declaration of his intention to “sort “The aid which was carried by the fleet to bring them to the Gaza Strip, noting that, based on what the fleet carried; the Israeli side will not let in more than ten per cent of the aid that was carried by the fleet, under the allegations of “banned from entering.”
The campaign explained in a statement issued today, that the ships of the fleet also carry more than 10 thousand tons of medical supplies, building materials, timber, 100 prefab houses to shelter tens of thousands of people who lost their homes during the Israeli war on Gaza in early 2009, it also carries 500 electric vehicles for the handicapped, especially since the recent war that left nearly 600 disabled people in Gaza, confirming that most of the humanitarian aid represents essential and humanitarian goods and materials, from which 90% of them are banned from entering according to Israel’s unjust rules.
The “European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza,” demanded pressure to be placed on the Israeli side to let in all humanitarian aid, which was carried by the fleet of “freedom” to the Gaza Strip, stressing the need for international control to include all such aid and not to prevent the entry of any, all goods and materials represent an urgent essential aid for the Palestinians trapped in Gaza.