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<td><span class="PublishedDate">[ 					01/11/2010 &#8211; 10:22 AM ] </span></td>
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<p style="font-size:10pt;">CAIRO, (PIC)&#8211; Members of the European  &#8220;Hope&#8221; convoy carrying aid to the Gaza Strip said that they were  hopeful of a decision by president Hosni Mubarak to allow them enter  Egypt via land route to deliver their aid consignment.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Dr. Mohammed Al-Haddad, the coordinator of  the convoy, told Quds Press in a telephone contact on Sunday that they  have been stuck at the borders for five days waiting an Egyptian  approval to allow them entry.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">He added that the Egyptian foreign  ministry told them that they have to trek the sea or air route to  El-Arish harbor and from there to Gaza.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">Haddad said that the convoy organizers,  who do not have enough money to charter a ship or a plane to carry the  aid, had sent a message to Mubarak appealing to him to exempt the convoy  from the Egyptian conditions for entering assistance to Gaza.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">For his part, Ken O&#8217;Keefe, an American  activist taking part in the convoy, told Quds Press that the convoy with  30 vehicles and around 100 relief activists including eight who  survived the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla had come a long  distance, almost 4,500 miles, and now finds itself at a dead-end.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">O&#8217;Keefe, 44, said that they were still optimistic the Egyptians would allow them land entry.</p>
<p style="font-size:10pt;">The activist, who also participated in the  Freedom Flotilla, said that the convoy had no other option but the land  or sea route, the second being very expensive and would eat up most of  the already limited resources they had collected in order to deliver  them to the Palestinian people in Gaza.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7vWkYO554%2fUISop6hwYELYN3ZiGUHGvelvsO3UgPrFrnnbniV%2fc%2fVotJx6cJ0Yj9S57mygW3KTXaO1nDObHq%2fkBSS8%2fQE%2f%2bR%2f8%2bSicmjxiYg%3d">Hope convoy stranded at Libyan-Egyptian borders</a>.</p>
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