We bring you the heart-warming story of Viva Palestina - Lifeline to Gaza - the British convoy of some 300 volunteers (our own Kamahl Mashni from Australia included) that left England on Valentine’s Day, 14 February to make the 5000 mile journey across Europe and North Africa to the Gaza Strip  to bring vital aid to the Palestinians desperate for food and medicines due to Israel’s punitive sanctions.
The 6-part video reveals the enormous undertaking that would have defeated most people except that it had the intrepid British MP George Galloway negotiating his way through the political and logistical obstacles in each of the countries and the resilient volunteers who were each determined to brave all kinds of conditions and restrictions for the besieged people in Gaza.
Despite the unfortunate ending to Kamahl’s journey (the fire engine he was driving was not allowed in to Gaza), Kamahl said the most important thing was that the aid got through.  He would do it all again to help his people.  More than ever their plight must be brought to the attention of a world still oblivious to the devastation being wrought on their society.
