Sunday, July 05, 2009

Letter from an Israeli Jail, by Cynthia McKinney

Cynthia McKinney, Free Gaza Team

uruknet.info, Saturday, 04 July 2009 13:47

Original audio message available here:
http://freegaza.org/it/home/56-news/984-a-message-from-cynth
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This is Cynthia McKinney and I’m speaking from an Israeli prison cellblock in Ramle. [I am one of] the Free Gaza 21, human rights activists currently imprisoned for trying to take medical supplies to Gaza, building supplies – and even crayons for children, I had a suitcase full of crayons for children. While we were on our way to Gaza the Israelis threatened to fire on our boat, but we did not turn around. The Israelis high-jacked and arrested us because we wanted to give crayons to the children in Gaza. We have been detained, and we want the people of the world to see how we have been treated just because we wanted to deliver humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza.

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