CAIRO: Asia 1, the ship carrying medical and humanitarian aid as part of the convoy Asia to Gaza, arrived at Al-Arish Port on Tuesday.
Supplies were unloaded and set to make way for Gaza through the Rafah border after fees were paid to Egyptian authorities.
Over 100 activists affiliated with the Asia to Gaza aid convoy crossed to Gaza through the Rafah border in the early hours of Monday.
The boat is carrying $1 million (€760,000) worth of medicine, foodstuffs and toys as well as four buses and 10 power generators for hospitals, Palestinian officials said.
The aid convoy left India at the beginning of December and had planned to arrive in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip by Dec. 27, the second anniversary of Israel’s "Operation Cast Lead" offensive.
Starting in India, the convoy passed through 18 Asian cities along the way — including in Pakistan, Iran and Turkey.
An Egyptian security official told AFP that around 20 Iranians and some, though not all, of the Jordanians traveling with the convoy had been denied visas to enter Egypt.
