The Free Gaza Movement announced that its two ships just left Cyprus.
Two journalists are known to be aboard. One is BBC’s Rachid Sekkai. The other is Lauren Booth. Sekkai says of her:
Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair who is now an international envoy to the Middle East , tells me she is travelling as both supporter and reporter.
“I dearly want to go to Gaza again to support the Palestinians and to show the world the reality of what’s going on there”.
That has all the echoes of another reporter, the BBC’s Fayad Shamala, who addressed a Hamas rally on May 6, 2001:
“Journalists and media organizations [are] waging the campaign shoulder-to-shoulder together with the Palestinian people.”
The two boats are are expected to reach Gaza waters in 20 hours. Developing . . . .
