(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - More than 10 parliamentarians, including former Labour shadow foreign secretary Sir Gerald Kaufman, have declared their backing for the international convoy, which is due to set sail this week, just over a year after Israel killed nine activists on the first flotilla in May 2010.
Kaufman said, "The Israeli blockade of Gaza is illegal and deeply harmful to the Gaza Strip’s huge population. The Israeli stopping of ships approaching Gaza, in international waters, is piracy".
A number of Britons are joining the fleet of ships from Greece, Spain, Italy, France, Canada, the United States, Germany/Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands and Ireland carrying medical supplies and other essential equipment, although there is no designate boat from the UK.
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