Alternative to Siege and Bloodshed

Medical supplies convoy to Gaza - the alternative to siege and bloodshed - Gush Shalom - Israeli Peace Bloc. Via my husband's cousin, Art Lipow.

Tomorrow morning (Sunday, May 4) there will be transferred to the Gaza Strip, after many delays due to bureaucratic problems in the granting of military permits, a consignment of medicines and medical equipment which was purchased through the sum of about 60,000 Dollars collected all over the world at the call of Gush Shalom and the other groups involved in the Israeli Coalition Against the Gaza Siege.

The medical supplies were purchased from Palestinian suppliers in Nablus, with the help of the Tel-Aviv based Physicians for Human Rights (which also undertook the obtaining of permits from the IDF military bureaucracy). The consignment will be passed on the morning hours of Wednesday, through the Bitunia Checkpoint near Ramallah and to the Gaza Strip border. There, it will be received by representatives of the Palestinian-International Coalition Against the Gaza Siege, in which the psychiatrist and human rights activist Dr. Eyad Sarraj is involved.

Members of Gush Shalom will accompany the consignment all the way to the Gaza border, with the truck decorated by huge signs reading “Stop the siege of Gaza, stop the bloodshed, cease-fire now!”.