Forty-four drivers who are taking 20 vehicles to Gaza – including three fully-fitted ambulances – loaded with medical aid and other needs worth over £100,000, will have a super Eid send-off as Bradford’s Viva Palestina branch prepares for the marathon journey in December.
Journalist Yvonne Ridley, who converted to Islam after working in Afghanistan, will be the featured guest speaker at the event, which takes place at the City Venue, 245 Sunbridge Road, Bradford, BD1 2JY on Sunday, November 29, starting at 5.30pm.
Former Labour cabinet minister Tony Benn will speak to the gathering over a video link. There will be specially-composed songs from Bradford singer-songwriter Karl Dallas, as well as stalls, a celebrity auction, and showing of videos shot during the trip of the first convoy, in February.
The Bradford drivers will be joining a mission heading from London, with Americans flying in to take part, forming the core of a convoy heading through Europe, into the Balkans, northern Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and into Egypt – picking up support along the way.
They will be spending Christmas Day on the road, and aim to be in Gaza on December 27, the first anniversary of the attack on Gaza, during which over 1400 civilians were killed, a third of them children.
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