Gaza aid convoy refuses to deliver package to Gilad Shalit [View All]

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A group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators sailing toward Gaza with humanitarian supplies on Thursday have refused a request by the father of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit to deliver a package and letter to his son.

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Shalit family's offer to back Gaza flotilla declined

Gilad Shalit's family offered to support the international flotilla to Gaza if its participants would demand that Hamas permit various organizations to visit the kidnapped Israeli soldier and allow him to receive packages.

Members of the campaign for Shalit's release said the organizers of the international aid mission to Gaza declined the offer.

Attorney Nick Kaufman, who approached the Free Gaza Movement on behalf of the kidnapped soldier's family, told Ynet that he offered the flotilla's organizers the family's full support provided that "in addition to their demand that Israel lift its blockade they will urge Hamas to allow the soldier to receive letters and food packages from his family and allow international organizations to visit him."

According to Kaufman, he was referred to the movement's legal counsel, who rejected the offer. "I thought this movement supports human rights, as it claims, but according to the reaction it seems that it is only interested in provocation and expressing support for a terror group that doesn't really care about human rights," said the attorney.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3895077,00.html