15 Lebanese figures taking part in Asia aid convoy - Syrian 80-ton aid heads to Gaza

15 Lebanese figures taking part in Asia aid convoy

[ 22/12/2010 - 04:56 PM ]

BEIRUT, (PIC)-- Deeb Hijazi, the rapporteur of the national initiative committee to break Gaza siege in Lebanon, said that the number of Lebanese participants in Asia aid convoy amounted to 15 figures including doctors, and heads and representatives of humanitarian and civil institutions.

Following an urgent meeting held by the initiative committee, Hijazi said that the convoy will arrive at the Syrian port of Latakia in few days and its organizers intend to reach Gaza on 27 of this month which marks the second anniversary of Gaza war.

For his part, director of the committee's foreign relations Nabil Hallaq outlined the contacts and meetings that took place between the initiative committee and Asia convoy, affirming a delegation from the convoy will arrive in Beirut next Thursday.

Asia convoy had started its journey from New Delhi in India and crossed Iran and Turkey and there are about 120 Asian activists in addition to others from Arab countries participating in it.

Syrian 80-ton aid heads to Gaza

[ 22/12/2010 - 05:33 PM ]

DAMASCUS, (PIC)-- The Syrian Arab popular committee for the support of the Palestinian people has sent a new aid batch of foodstuffs and medical material to the besieged Gaza Strip.

An official Syrian media quoted the head of the committee Ahmed Abdulkarim as saying that four trucks loaded with 80 tons of food, medicine, and clothes were sent to Gaza via Jordan to help alleviate the Palestinian people's suffering especially with the approach of Christmas and New Year.

The convoys of Syrian aid indicate the people's constant backing of their brothers in Gaza, he added, noting that the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization would take over the shipment at the Syrian-Jordanian borders and deliver it to Gaza.

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