Lebanese All-Women Aid Ship to Head to Gaza via Cyprus Sunday.

Organizers of a Lebanese women-only aid ship which plans to break the Gaza blockade announced on Thursday they will sail to Cyprus on the first leg of their journey this weekend.

"The ship Mariam will leave for Cyprus on Sunday at 10 pm (1900 GMT) from the port of Tripoli" in north Lebanon, organizer Samar al-Hajj told reporters outside the port.

The Mariam, a Bolivian-flagged cargo ship, plans to carry aid to Gaza in a bid to break the four-year inhumane siege of Gaza with 50 Lebanese and foreign women activists on board.

The Mariam, renamed in honor of the Virgin Mary, would need Cypriot authorization to depart for Gaza from its shores but officials in Cyprus have said the island was keeping in place a ban on ships departing for Gaza.

"The Cypriot ambassador to Lebanon tried to convince us not to go and reiterated that his country would not grant us authorization to sail to Gaza," Hajj told AFP. "But we are adamant," she added. "We have no arms and we will go to Gaza."

The "Naji al-Ali," another Lebanese boat organized by journalists and originally named Julia, has also announced it would sail to Gaza via Cyprus but has not yet received clearance from Lebanese authorities

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Update: Lebanon aid ship to Gaza seeks new port after Cyprus refusal

Cypriot police said  the arrival and departure of ships to or from Gaza through Cyprus ports was prohibited, prompting the Lebanese transport minister to revoke permission for the ship to sail there, according to the organisers.

[Xianman06]

These are very brave women, especially since we all know Israel will attack even little, unarmed children. I wish them luck and strength!

THE WORLD MUST DUMP TERRORIST ISRAEL!

[lebnen143]

dont think so bro isral will not fall its in the bible it will always stand strong im lebanese myslef but isral wont fall your hamas and hizbollahs missiles will not do nothing on israel they have made new missile system than 100 time sstronger than missles its over bro pack your bags before your dead idf will hunt you bro

[israelSeedOfSatan]

GOD is with GAZA, he will protect them and Israel will pay for what they had done.

[vionorino]

zionist trash ! i spit on cyprus keep raising donkeys!

[saadasim]

Say NO to

NAtionalistic

ZIonists

[Smarterthanyouarable]

Good luck to them. No matter what happens it brings world wide attention to what the Zionist are doing. Committing war crimes under the 4th geneva convention which specifies what the Zionist are bound by international law to let into Gaza.