{"id":552,"date":"2010-07-15T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T08:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=552"},"modified":"2010-07-15T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T08:45:09","slug":"gaza-aid-ship-docks-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/07\/15\/552\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza aid ship docks in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"new-ship\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/new-ship.jpg\" width=\"261\" height=\"195\" \/>A Libyan aid ship originally bound for the Gaza Strip has been diverted to a port in Egypt after the Israeli navy warned the vessel against trying to break an Israeli blockade on the Palestinian coastal territory.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">An Egyptian official said the Amalthea arrived in El Arish, on Egypt&#8217;s Mediterranean coast, about 45km south of the border with Gaza, in mid-evening on Wednesday.<br \/>&#8220;Medical supplies and passengers will enter Gaza through the Rafah border [crossing], while food will enter through the Awja border,&#8221; Captain Gamal Abdel Maqsoud, who is in charge of the port, said.<br \/>He said Egypt&#8217;s Red Crescent would be responsible for taking the 2,000 tonnes of food and medicine over both borders and had lorries waiting in El Arish.<br \/>Yousseuf Sawani, executive director of the Gaddafi Foundation which charteredthe vessel, confirmed earlier that it had decided to divert the ship away from Gaza for safety reasons.<br \/>&#8220;It was unacceptable for us to enter into a confrontation and risk bloodshed,&#8221; Sawani said.<br \/>&#8220;The aims of Amalthea have been achieved without bloodshed and the result is gains for the Palestinians.&#8221;<br \/>He said earlier on Wednesday that eight Israeli warships had surrounded the Libyan aid ship, preventing it from continuing its journey to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Request accepted<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Amr el-Kahky, Al Jazeera&#8217;s correspondent in El Arish, said the Egyptian foreign ministry had officially accepted a request from the ship to dock in El Arish.<br \/>&#8220;Offloading of the ship and loading [the supplies] onto trucks to travel to Gaza is due to take place tomorrow [Thursday],&#8221; he said.<br \/>The Amalthea is carrying 12 crew members and at least nine passengers, including six Libyans and one each from Algeria, Morocco and Nigeria.<br \/>A separate attempt to deliver aid relief and medical supplies to Gaza is also currently under way.<br \/>A convoy of 150 people, including &#8220;unionists, journalists and academics&#8221;, is travelling overland in 25 vehicles from Jordan to the Egyptian Rafah crossing.<br \/>These challenges to the blockade come a day after Israel&#8217;s military admitted mistakes in the May 31 attack on a flotilla of aid vessels trying to breach the blockade.<br \/>Nine pro-Palestinian activists, eight Turks and a dual US-Turkish citizen, were killed after Israeli soldiers boarded the lead ship Mavi Marmara.<br \/>Following an international outcry over the raid, Israel recently eased restrictions on the Gaza Strip, allowing some previously banned items into the territory.<br \/>But construction materials remain heavily restricted, Gazans have very limited freedom of movement, and Israel still enforces a naval blockade on the territory.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Libyan aid ship originally bound for the Gaza Strip has been diverted to a port in Egypt after the Israeli navy warned the vessel against trying to break an Israeli blockade on the Palestinian coastal territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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