[Marxism] Free Gaza movement sending medical supplies, doctors, Cynthia McKinney

[Eli Stephens <elishastephens@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

URL: 
http://www.freegaza.org/index.php?module=latest_news&id=e060e9316ba931b0a86fe47234d777f3&offset=

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Date : 12-28-2008
                                
                          FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sunday 28th December 2008

For more information, contact. 

(Gaza) Ewa Jasiewicz, +970 598 700 497 / freelance@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
(Cyprus) Eliza Ernshire, +357 99 081 767/ eliza.ernshire@xxxxxxxxx
(U.S.) Ramzi Kysia, +1 703 994 5422/ rrkysia@xxxxxxxxx
 
(Larnaca,
Cyprus) The Free Gaza movement will hold a press conference at 16:30,
Monday, December 29 at the port in Larnaca. The organization is sending
in the DIGNITY on an emergency mission of mercy to Gaza loaded with
three to four tons of urgently needed medical supplies.

On board
are four physicians, including Dr. Elena Theoharous, a surgeon and
Member of Parliament in Cyprus. Also going are The Hon. Cynthia
McKinney, former U.S. Congresswoman and Green Party presidential
candidate, and Sami al-Hajj, an Al Jazeera reporter and former detainee
at Guantanamo.

Dr Khaled from the Shifa hospital ICU in Gaza
City told us on Saturday that the majority of cases are critical
shrapnel wounds from Israeli gunboats and helicopters, with an
approximate 80% who will not survive. 

The medical supply list
includes bandages, splints and rubber gloves, items that any medical
community should have access to, but, because of Israel's policies of
collective punishment, these supplies are not available.

Eliza
Ernshire, one of the Free Gaza organizers says, "We have calls for
surgeons willing to go into Gaza and work there throughout this crisis.
The doctors inside are exhausted and unable to cope with the number of
wounded. We will do our best to send in the DIGNITY as often as we can
over the next few weeks, bringing in physicians and medical supplies.

The media is welcome to come to the port at 16:30 to interview the passengers.

Funds are urgently needed:
 http://www.freegaza.org/index.php?language=EN&module=funds_needed




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