French NGOs Call for Financing an aid ship to Gaza

A number of non-government organizations in France called on Sunday for donations to finance a shipload of aid to the beleaguered Gaza Strip.

The group said in a statement on Sunday that the Gaza inhabitants were living in miserable and unacceptable conditions after four years of siege.

It said that national groups and organizations would participate in the second Freedom Flotilla that would sail to Gaza in the spring of 2011 and would charter a vessel for this purpose.

The statement asked the French government to strongly support the ship and intervene to allow it to anchor in Gaza.