GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian lawmaker Jamal Al-Khudari and Arab Knesset member Ahmed Tibi said that the Libyan aid ship resumed sailing towards the Gaza Strip after its arrival at the Greek island of Crete in the Mediterranean sea.
The lawmakers, who are following up the movement of the ship, added in a press release on Sunday that the ship's arrival at the island was according to a plan set by the Gaddafi international charity and development Foundation.
Khudari noted that the ship is loaded with relief aid and medicines funded by the Gaddafi foundation in coordination with the popular campaign against the siege that provided lists of Gaza needs.
Earlier, spokesman for the Gaddafi foundation Mashallah Zwy told, by phone, the French press agency that the foundation members aboard the ship do not seek any confrontation or provocation in the event of their exposure to an Israeli military action.
In another incident, a group of Jordanian trade unionists said they would leave Amman for Gaza on Tuesday and would try to enter through the Rafah border crossing to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza people.
Head of the Jordanian engineers' union Wa'el Saqa stated that 150 volunteers would participate in the convoy that is composed of 30 trucks carrying humanitarian aid.
"We will try to break the unjust siege and we will go to Al-Arish in Egypt; we will insist on entering Gaza if the Egyptian authorities try to stop us," Saqa said.
For his part, head of the Jordanian syndicate council Ahmed Al-Armouti said that the Egyptian embassy in Amman ignored their request to meet with the ambassador in order to coordinate with him regarding the convoy.
The Egyptian authorities had prevented last month a group of Jordanian trade unionists from crossing into Gaza at the pretext that the group arrived without prior notice or coordination with Egypt.
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