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CORRECTION: An earlier version of this story misstated a previous political post held by George Galloway. This version reflects the correction.
Israel is gradually being isolated as a result of its military campaign in the Gaza Strip last December, according to the head of a relief organization yesterday, as an aid convoy destined for the Gaza Strip arrived in Istanbul.
“For the first time, the international community has seen that Israel was unfair and unjust in its campaign. The entire world considered Israel’s campaign unfair because Israel killed innocent women and children in Palestine,” said Bülent Yıldırım, the chairman of the Humanitarian Relief Foundation, or İHH, speaking at a joint news conference with British MP George Galloway.
Yıldırım spoke just after the 80-vehicle aid convoy arrived in Istanbul after crossing into Turkey through the Ipsala border gate. Some 70 more vehicles, including 47 from the United States, are expected to join the convoy and are waiting at the Mediterranean port city of Mersin.
The Viva Palestine convoy, the third of its kind, involves an international campaign aiming to support Palestinians in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.
The Viva Palestine convoy includes women and men, young and old, Muslim and non-Muslim, and leftists and rightists. They come from all over the world, including Australia, Malaysia, England and Ireland.
“Those who are from different religions will jointly act against the killings and the suffering of 1.5 million people in Gaza, which has been increasingly isolated,” said Yıldırım.
George Galloway, a British MP who is leading the Viva Palestine convoy, maintained that Sunday's warrant against Israel’s former foreign minister Zippi Livni was a historic moment for the Palestinians.
“This is a historic breakthrough in the land of Balfour; we had a warrant for the arrest of an Israeli war criminal,” said the British MP, leader of the Respect Party.
“She ran away as soon as she learned about the warrant. She has kept on running because we will pursue Livni and [former Prime Minister Ehud] Olmert and all Israeli generals for as long as they live to pay for this war crime,” he said.
On Sunday, a British court issued a warrant for the arrest of Livni over her role in Israel’s military operation against the Gaza Strip last year.
Galloway said the Viva Palestine Convoy aims to ensure the world will not forget the crime that was committed on Dec. 27th, 2008.
“We will try to relieve the blockade on the one-and-a-half million Palestinians who have been blocked in Gaza,” he said.
Galloway condemned Israel’s sense of democracy saying, “It is democracy that has killed innocent children just because it did not like their mothers’ and fathers’ voting,” he said.
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viva palestina !!!!!!!!!
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