A UK based aid convoy carrying urgent medical aid has just entered Gaza

WOOO HOOO! A team is now in GAZA!!!!!! Thank you RED CRESCENT!! alhamdulillah! Al Sabro Noor

 - القافلة (Patience is Light) A UK based aid convoy carrying urgent medical aid has just entered Gaza.
The team of 17 volunteers have people from England, Ireland and Egypt who are accompanying a truck loaded with specialist surgical equipment and medical items.

UK based medical convoy held up at Rafah being denied entry to Gaza.

A UK based aid convoy carrying urgent medical aid has just been blocked from entering Gaza. They have all the correct paper work but have been told they can’t enter.

The team consisting of 19 people from England, Ireland and Egypt are accompanying a truck loaded with specialist surgical equipment and perishable medical items that are nearing expiring as time goes on.

The original date that they were given permission to go in on was the 8th but they were contacted by Egyptian officials and told to delay for their safety. The team delayed and went on the 10th as  suggested by the officials but they have waited since 8am on Saturday without any news on when the can enter. They have been told not to film or hold banners up.

This comes long after Egyptian authorities claimed that Rafah was opened. This kind of delay/denial of entry has become commonplace, almost standard practice for those attempting to send aid or show solidarity with the people of Gaza and the process is harder still for the millions of Gazans trapped inside wishing to travel in or out of Gaza.

This convoy is testing the Egyptian Authorities at Rafah at a very crucial time following the storming of the Israeli embassy in Cairo, the ‘de facto’ expulsion of it’s ambassador and calls from the post Mubarak revolutionary movement to cancel the Camp David agreement with Israel.