Pro-Gaza flotilla charity says Israel blocking aid to be sent via Jordan

Israel is blocking 250 tons of aid for Gaza, including food, medical supplies and educational material, because of disagreements over its content, an Italian

charity involved in last month's international flotilla said on Thursday.



Italy's Music for Peace NGO said it collected large quantities of aid as part of a mobilisation in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was seeking to breach Israel's naval blockade on the Palestinian enclave.



About 40 tons were loaded on boats that joined the flotilla from Italy, and which were blocked by Israel with the rest of the convoy. Another 250 tons should have been delivered to Gaza via Jordan, but were stranded in the Italian port of Genoa, the charity said.



"They told us that with a few phone calls, in three hours the aid would have been in. Well, we've been trying for four weeks, and the end result is that we have been refused", Stefano Rebora, head of the NGO, said in a press conference.