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<font size=4><b>Lebanese aid ship to set sail for Gaza <br><br>
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</a>A Lebanese aid ship will move towards the Gaza Strip within a few
days to deliver humanitarian supplies to the besieged people of Gaza.
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Lebanese Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi said authorities granted
permission Monday for the ship to sail to Cyprus and then to Gaza.
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The aid ship cannot directly sail for Gaza as Lebanon and Israel are
technically still at war, he expounded. <br><br>
The ship, named "Julia," is now docked at the northern Lebanese
port of Tripoli and can set sail once it is cleared by port authorities
there, the minister said. <br><br>
Another ship called "Mariam," is also planning to make the
voyage, carrying some 50 women activists including Arabs, Europeans and
four American nuns as well as cancer medication to Gaza. <br><br>
It was not clear whether the two ships would leave together. <br><br>
The Free Palestine Movement organized the mission. Yasser Kashlak, a
Syrian of Palestinian origin who heads the group, said the ships would be
carrying humanitarian supplies to Gaza and would be searched at a port in
Cyprus. <br><br>
"We will abide by international and marine laws and will be subject
to international inspection," he told the Associated Press.
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Organizers said Julia plans to sail in the next few days, but did not
give an exact date for the departure. Israel has threatened that it would
use "all necessary means" to stop the convoy. <br><br>
The pro-Palestinian campaigners planned the mission after Israeli
commandos stormed the Gaza Freedom Flotilla aid convoy on May 31, killing
at least 20 civilian activists and injuring dozens of others in
international waters. <br><br>
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