Rebuilding Alliance, Free Gaza Movement Urge Open Trade and Aid

July 23, 2010, San Mateo CA – Nearly a month and a half after the Irish ship, the MV Rachel Corrie, was forceably rerouted and impounded by the Israeli Navy, the office of the United Nations Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East (UNSCO) has promised to deliver the full humanitarian aid cargo to U.N. agencies in Gaza. The Rebuilding Alliance, one of the only U.S. organizations to place humanitarian relief cargo on the “Freedom Flotilla” to Gaza, is hopeful that the backpacks, sports equipment, and building materials donated by hundreds of Americans will soon reach the Gaza non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) for which they were intended.