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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

India Lifeline to Gaza delegation hold meet and greet in Mumbai

Asian People's Solidarity for Palestine- Meet the first ever Indian activists to enter Gaza, Palestine.

Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malayasia, Pakistan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, UK!

Chased by Israeli warships and warplanes in the Meditteranean Sea... held hostage in a cargo ship off Egypt without passports.. the amazing story of grit and determination of more than a 120 activists from 17 Asian countries, over 50 of them from India alone, who entered Gaza (Palestine) last week after a historic month-long 8,000-km bus-ride through Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt.

The 56 member Indian delegation set of from the shrine of Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat, New Delhi on the 2nd of December, 2010 & returned home on the 8th of January, 2011. With them, they took life-saving medical equipment, food items, clothes and other aid worth $1 million, weighing 170 tons, for the people of Gaza who continue to suffer unspeakable hardships for nearly five years under the inhuman, genocidal & illegal blockade imposed by the Zionist Israeli-US regimes.

Through its journey, the caravan was greeted by tens of thousands of people and their leaders that included, among others, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hamas chief Khalid Mishal and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, as well as by the leadership of the Baath Party in Syria.

You are cordially invited to meet the delegates at the press conference and share their experience through our testimonies, as well as their rich collection of videos and photographs that documented the historic journey.

The activists included a diverse range of representation from from across the spectrum of people's movements. The delegation from Mumbai itself included Brigadier Sudhir Sawant, West Asian expert and peace activist Feroze Mithiborwala, Arif Kapadia, Pooja Badekar, Shadab Siddiqui, Ajay Gharat, Amruta Waske & Rahul Soni. Student activists from Vidyarthi Bharati in Mumbai, and students from JNU and Jamia Millia comprised the Indian contingent. The Indian delegates hailed from UP, Punjab, Kerala, Maharashtra, Delhi, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Bihar, Jharkhand, among others.
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