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SWANSEA PALESTINE COMMUNITY LINK 

It's Christmas morning here, but we are not in Egypt as we expected, but
in a car park in Aqaba.  After lulling (some of us) into believing we
could pass, the Egyptain authorities told the Ferry Captain that we would
NOT be allowed to disembark on the Eyptian side.

They have given us 3 options:

1. We leave the aid here for the UN to deliver and go home.
2  We MAY go across as foot passangers but no aid can be carried, and even
then we won't be allowed to Rafah.
3. We go by boat to Al Arish, but still not to Gaza.

All ludicrous suggestions.  We have already travelled over 3,000 miles, WE
ARE NOT TURNING BACK!

Now I know it's Christmas Day and all, but as soon as you get a minute
PLEASE e-mail, phone, fax the Egyptian Embassey, get in touch with your MP
(easy to find and use, WRITE TO THEM), and local media too.

In the meantime we have a Football Match between the Turkish, Syrians,
Palestinians, Jordanians on one side and the Us and Europeans on the
othere, this afternoon, and home-made entertainment in the car park in the
evening culminating with a ceili!(if I can remember the moves)!!

This must be the strangest Christmas Day ever, but the messages on the
blog, on Facebook, and the e-mails have been heart-warming. Keep them
coming, we need your support now more than ever.
Christmas Greetings from the Swansea Aunties on the edge of the Red Sea.

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