Report: Iranian aid ship will depart for Gaza this week

Iranian newspaper Tehran Times reported today that an Iranian ship carrying 3000 tons of humanitarian assistance will depart for Gaza this week

The paper was quoting the director of the Iranian Red Crescent Volunteers Community who reportedly made the announcement on Friday.

“The ship will be carrying 3000 tons of food, clothing, and medical supplies, and 20 people will be on board. The ship will set sail for Gaza by the end of the week,” Mashallah Portolouei said in a press briefing in Mashhad.

“So far, 150,000 people have voluntarily registered to head to Gaza,” he added.

The volunteers are not connected to any political group. Like other activists around the world they are seeking to help Gazans.

News about the Iranian aid ships to Gaza have been shrouded in mystery. Based on Iran’s
reports last week about the sailings the ships should have arrived in Gaza by now.

Lebanese aid ship

A group of Lebanese women activists also said earlier this week they would set sail for Gaza with an aid ship loaded with medical supplies. The women insisted, however, that they were not affiliated to any political organization, and said the ship would carry 30 Lebanese activists as well as 20 foreigners including several Europeans.

Lebanese pop star May Hariri announced Friday that she will be a participant in the all-women p Gaza-bound aid ship “Mariam”, and that she has started preparing for the trip.

Hezbollah denies involvement

Hezbollah praised all initiatives aiming to lift Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip but stressed in a statement issued on Friday that the party will not take part in any Gaza-bound aid missions.
“We do not want Israel to use the party’s participation as an excuse to attack the boats,” The statement said

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  • maria

    Iran is a full of sh!t nation based on lies and self hype.

    2 weeks ago they announced they were sending their floatzilla along with military escort, now it will be a ship with goods with no one onboard, and more delays. These idiots are waiting to see what happens to the lebanese ship before they set sail anywhere. Im so sick of countries using libon to set off the mines before they enter. 10 years of announcing the opening of reactors and to this date they got nothing operational, the packis did it decades ago and these idiots are still trying to figure things out but continue to threaten.

    You know what israel? why are you still contemplating whether to attack or not, just nuke them and relieve everyone from them, i think the stupid world has given way too much importance to this crappy counrty. I find it hard for a race who hasnt been able to figure out the purpose of deoderant to be able to be a superpower

  • maria

    Iran is a full of sh!t nation based on lies and self hype.

    2 weeks ago they announced they were sending their floatzilla along with military escort, now it will be a ship with goods with no one onboard, and more delays. These idiots are waiting to see what happens to the lebanese ship before they set sail anywhere. Im so sick of countries using libon to set off the mines before they enter. 10 years of announcing the opening of reactors and to this date they got nothing operational, the packis did it decades ago and these idiots are still trying to figure things out but continue to threaten.

    You know what israel? why are you still contemplating whether to attack or not, just nuke them and relieve everyone from them, i think the stupid world has given way too much importance to this crappy counrty. I find it hard for a race who hasnt been able to figure out the purpose of deoderant to be able to be a superpower

  • John

    Maria when you learn to respect an honorable nation of 74 million people(74,000,000) then people will start to respect you.

    And you say just nuke them ya hmara? You want to nuke 74 million people because you hate khamenei and shiites. You are a disgrace to Lebanon. Don’t forget if Iran is attacked then Lebanon will turn into a battleground never before witnessed in the pages of history.

    Instead of calling on all nuclear nations to disarm; you say nothing of it. For example, Israel with 800 nuclear bombs most of which are pointed to every Arab and Muslim capital in the world; you don’t even mention! But you encourage the nuking of 74 million people and the country doesn’t even have a nuclear bomb or even close. And even when it will have one, there’s no problem. Why can you have a gun at home and your neighbor can’t? Hypocrites. You think your smart? Think again little girl. The words you utter disgust me and every decent person who calls himself a human being. My sincerest advice is that you change your thinking and be careful what you say. Enough said.

  • John

    Maria when you learn to respect an honorable nation of 74 million people(74,000,000) then people will start to respect you.

    And you say just nuke them ya hmara? You want to nuke 74 million people because you hate khamenei and shiites. You are a disgrace to Lebanon. Don’t forget if Iran is attacked then Lebanon will turn into a battleground never before witnessed in the pages of history.

    Instead of calling on all nuclear nations to disarm; you say nothing of it. For example, Israel with 800 nuclear bombs most of which are pointed to every Arab and Muslim capital in the world; you don’t even mention! But you encourage the nuking of 74 million people and the country doesn’t even have a nuclear bomb or even close. And even when it will have one, there’s no problem. Why can you have a gun at home and your neighbor can’t? Hypocrites. You think your smart? Think again little girl. The words you utter disgust me and every decent person who calls himself a human being. My sincerest advice is that you change your thinking and be careful what you say. Enough said.

  • maria

    I think I will use the John and urinate on your post ya 7ayawen! Im not on here to gain your respect, tuz alek oo shaklak ya suri kalb

    Lebanons cancer is spreading because of your iran. syria is still calling the shots because of iran. Nobody said to nuke 74 million people, just target their facilities and shut them up! This crappy country has caused so much trouble for lebanon, dumping billions to fund a bunch of radicals while their own people starve. Iran is a nation of 74 million with over 50 million starving so that piece of trash ayatola can play chess with isral.

    If iran had balls then why wont it launch its own war? what happened to military escort with their aid ships? all threats, no action! If youre so concerned about the war spilling into lebanon and advocating peace, why dont you protest the presence of syria and iran in your country? why wont you protest hiz military installations all over lebanon? if you want peace ya ja7sh why would you be ok with hiz having anti aircraft fire in baruk and sanin? stop talking and preaching your nuclear disamrmament crap because you know it wont happen, worry about your country, not outside of it, start preaching the words to foriegn countries interfering in lebanon by telling them to get the F*&K out and by telling the schizophrenic politicians to get out, telling hiz that they must disarm, not for the sake of isreal but for the sake of them turning their guns on their own people, AGAIN! How can any lebanese live in peace when most of the citizens are disarmed and the hiz is fully armed. ya 7mar remember what you wrote? “Why can you have a gun at home and your neighbor can’t? ” talk about being a hypocrite you piece of trash!

    mr. toilet, dont ever reply to my posts, im not posting to get a reaction or response from you, my sincerest advise to you is to move to iran or syria and watch what you say when youre there douchbag!

  • maria

    I think I will use the John and urinate on your post ya 7ayawen! Im not on here to gain your respect, tuz alek oo shaklak ya suri kalb

    Lebanons cancer is spreading because of your iran. syria is still calling the shots because of iran. Nobody said to nuke 74 million people, just target their facilities and shut them up! This crappy country has caused so much trouble for lebanon, dumping billions to fund a bunch of radicals while their own people starve. Iran is a nation of 74 million with over 50 million starving so that piece of trash ayatola can play chess with isral.

    If iran had balls then why wont it launch its own war? what happened to military escort with their aid ships? all threats, no action! If youre so concerned about the war spilling into lebanon and advocating peace, why dont you protest the presence of syria and iran in your country? why wont you protest hiz military installations all over lebanon? if you want peace ya ja7sh why would you be ok with hiz having anti aircraft fire in baruk and sanin? stop talking and preaching your nuclear disamrmament crap because you know it wont happen, worry about your country, not outside of it, start preaching the words to foriegn countries interfering in lebanon by telling them to get the F*&K out and by telling the schizophrenic politicians to get out, telling hiz that they must disarm, not for the sake of isreal but for the sake of them turning their guns on their own people, AGAIN! How can any lebanese live in peace when most of the citizens are disarmed and the hiz is fully armed. ya 7mar remember what you wrote? “Why can you have a gun at home and your neighbor can’t? ” talk about being a hypocrite you piece of trash!

    mr. toilet, dont ever reply to my posts, im not posting to get a reaction or response from you, my sincerest advise to you is to move to iran or syria and watch what you say when youre there douchbag!

  • Tony A

    john i don’t know what kind of upbringing you had but why would you attack a fellow arab the same way you attack pro-israeli posters.

    come on dude we’re all in the same boat together and you know what? i agree with maria. iran’s been harping about nukes for years. either buid them or shut up already.

    i dont agree with bombing their facilities cos it doesn’t agree with the stability of the region but i can understand her frustration.

    you’ve obviously read many of her posts and i don’t think she deserves to be called 7mara.

    just lighten up we got enough idiots posting hate and propoganda from pro-israeli side we don’t need to be fighting among ourselves.

    thats why i don’t respond to some posters here cos one of them even attacked my name which is why i went by initials to have intelligent conversations without attacks.

    peace y’all

  • Tony A

    john i don’t know what kind of upbringing you had but why would you attack a fellow arab the same way you attack pro-israeli posters.

    come on dude we’re all in the same boat together and you know what? i agree with maria. iran’s been harping about nukes for years. either buid them or shut up already.

    i dont agree with bombing their facilities cos it doesn’t agree with the stability of the region but i can understand her frustration.

    you’ve obviously read many of her posts and i don’t think she deserves to be called 7mara.

    just lighten up we got enough idiots posting hate and propoganda from pro-israeli side we don’t need to be fighting among ourselves.

    thats why i don’t respond to some posters here cos one of them even attacked my name which is why i went by initials to have intelligent conversations without attacks.

    peace y’all

  • Tony A

    maria, i honestly get so frustrated when i see the animosity from posters that are arabs attacking other arabs based on their following or thinking.

    with a moderate approach, we can all learn to talk to each other without the “you should die or i hope you hang” crap.

    i mean england with its divide and conquer approach has put a big divide that’s still working among us.

    i can’t when posters are asking me to be nice and to show we’re polite to pro-israeli posters yet, they are reay to spit at arabs who are just voicing an opinion.

    our problem is not from our leaders but from ourselves. if we unite, we can get join our leaders who are trying to do the same.

    they might be crooks but like we say in the west, better vote in the devil you know than the one you don’t.

    we already know what they’re all about and for any lebanese to have blind love for iran is okay cos time teaches us all the truth and patience is a virtue.

    its taken the west 50 years to wake up from israeli propoganda and more andmore peace activists are joining the ranks to help voice their outrage against israel thanks to you tube and independent mews channels online.

    the same goes for the blind supporters of iran, time will show whether this iranian regime is good for lebanon or not and these blind supporters have the right to change their minds and join the lebanese people again as i will always welcome them with open arms.

    all my iranian friends here hate the iranian government with their hypocrite rule of using religion to oppress and rule by fear.

    so i get surprised that lebanese with all the openness and democracy that lebanon represents, that they would want to favor such a regime.

    but i can also understand their POV that if iran’s preventing israel from attacking then, we welcome them. that’s okay but you wanna welcome them with rules cos i like my women liberated and strong willed instead of all veiled up where they can’t even celebrate their beauty.

    i love when i come to lebanon and i see the muslim girls with their Vogue clothing and real fashionable veil that only covers their hair and you can still see their face. they look absolutely stunning as opposed to the rag tag dolls with black veils from top to bottom not being able to celbrate themselves as to how god createed them. but that’s all thanks to man’s insecurities that has forced them to relinquish their strength so man remains in power and no one will ever convince me that this is what god wants. thats hog wash.

    if god wanted women to cover their faces, why create such beauty to only be covered.

    anyway, i’m off subject but maria, celebrate your strength and dont let any needle dick oppress you or intimidate you cos thats what i notice in the pro-israeli posts with their insults and their intimidations. enough is enough and they will get their own intimidation and oppression from me and many others.

    long live one lebanon and one people. look at the rainbow and how its colors are in harmony with each other. thats how humans are supposed to coexist.

  • Tony A

    maria, i honestly get so frustrated when i see the animosity from posters that are arabs attacking other arabs based on their following or thinking.

    with a moderate approach, we can all learn to talk to each other without the “you should die or i hope you hang” crap.

    i mean england with its divide and conquer approach has put a big divide that’s still working among us.

    i can’t when posters are asking me to be nice and to show we’re polite to pro-israeli posters yet, they are reay to spit at arabs who are just voicing an opinion.

    our problem is not from our leaders but from ourselves. if we unite, we can get join our leaders who are trying to do the same.

    they might be crooks but like we say in the west, better vote in the devil you know than the one you don’t.

    we already know what they’re all about and for any lebanese to have blind love for iran is okay cos time teaches us all the truth and patience is a virtue.

    its taken the west 50 years to wake up from israeli propoganda and more andmore peace activists are joining the ranks to help voice their outrage against israel thanks to you tube and independent mews channels online.

    the same goes for the blind supporters of iran, time will show whether this iranian regime is good for lebanon or not and these blind supporters have the right to change their minds and join the lebanese people again as i will always welcome them with open arms.

    all my iranian friends here hate the iranian government with their hypocrite rule of using religion to oppress and rule by fear.

    so i get surprised that lebanese with all the openness and democracy that lebanon represents, that they would want to favor such a regime.

    but i can also understand their POV that if iran’s preventing israel from attacking then, we welcome them. that’s okay but you wanna welcome them with rules cos i like my women liberated and strong willed instead of all veiled up where they can’t even celebrate their beauty.

    i love when i come to lebanon and i see the muslim girls with their Vogue clothing and real fashionable veil that only covers their hair and you can still see their face. they look absolutely stunning as opposed to the rag tag dolls with black veils from top to bottom not being able to celbrate themselves as to how god createed them. but that’s all thanks to man’s insecurities that has forced them to relinquish their strength so man remains in power and no one will ever convince me that this is what god wants. thats hog wash.

    if god wanted women to cover their faces, why create such beauty to only be covered.

    anyway, i’m off subject but maria, celebrate your strength and dont let any needle dick oppress you or intimidate you cos thats what i notice in the pro-israeli posts with their insults and their intimidations. enough is enough and they will get their own intimidation and oppression from me and many others.

    long live one lebanon and one people. look at the rainbow and how its colors are in harmony with each other. thats how humans are supposed to coexist.

  • maria

    good one Tony! I just find it ridiculous when you see lebanese supporting syria, iran or whoever and will fight and argue with you for some other country, example..look at the world cup, people in libon will hang flags and when their team (other country) loses they go out and start fights with the supporters of the team who won and sometimes use weapons as if its their own team lol…that is the mentality of most of the lebanese and just like this idiot john, he is insulting me because he supports irans interference in libon.

  • maria

    good one Tony! I just find it ridiculous when you see lebanese supporting syria, iran or whoever and will fight and argue with you for some other country, example..look at the world cup, people in libon will hang flags and when their team (other country) loses they go out and start fights with the supporters of the team who won and sometimes use weapons as if its their own team lol…that is the mentality of most of the lebanese and just like this idiot john, he is insulting me because he supports irans interference in libon.

  • Tony A

    maria, you reminded me in the 70s during the civil war in our college in the shouf mountains whenever we used to watch movies in our college, the students would emulate that movie.

    for example, when a bruce lee movie would show, after the movie everybody’s outside fighting with their noonchuks like idiots.

    then we watch some alain delon movie and all of a sudden they’re all charmers.

    ridiculous and you see, all these idiots seem to think the grass is greener on the other side but little do they know that if they take care of their own yard, the other countries would look at lebanon and say, “wow, look, over there, the grass is greener on their side”.

    forget john. i dunno why he’s so rude to you. maybe he needs to get laid.

  • Tony A

    maria, you reminded me in the 70s during the civil war in our college in the shouf mountains whenever we used to watch movies in our college, the students would emulate that movie.

    for example, when a bruce lee movie would show, after the movie everybody’s outside fighting with their noonchuks like idiots.

    then we watch some alain delon movie and all of a sudden they’re all charmers.

    ridiculous and you see, all these idiots seem to think the grass is greener on the other side but little do they know that if they take care of their own yard, the other countries would look at lebanon and say, “wow, look, over there, the grass is greener on their side”.

    forget john. i dunno why he’s so rude to you. maybe he needs to get laid.

  • LeoPersica

    Maria ,judging on the shear amount of insults you include in your comments will render you out of respect circle of any one with a sound judgment.
    just have a look at your post :
    “urinate” ,”7ayawen” ,”suri kalb”,”shut iranian up”,”ya ja7sh”,…
    and my favorite “mr.toilet”
    just thinking…
    some lebanese are only about hatred and they are blaming all others for their miseries ?
    it’s a joke !!
    you were probably not born in 1975 but those thousands of lebanese killed in your Civil war were killed by lebanese no one else to blame!

  • LeoPersica

    Maria ,judging on the shear amount of insults you include in your comments will render you out of respect circle of any one with a sound judgment.
    just have a look at your post :
    “urinate” ,”7ayawen” ,”suri kalb”,”shut iranian up”,”ya ja7sh”,…
    and my favorite “mr.toilet”
    just thinking…
    some lebanese are only about hatred and they are blaming all others for their miseries ?
    it’s a joke !!
    you were probably not born in 1975 but those thousands of lebanese killed in your Civil war were killed by lebanese no one else to blame!

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