Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez may join aid convoy “Lifeline 4”, which will leave for Gaza after the British parliamentary elections in May, Lebanese newspaper As-Safir reported Monday. Egypt banned Lifeline convoys from passing through after a Hamas sniper shot an Egyptian border guard to death during a riot in support of Lifeline 3 at the beginning of the month.
The newspaper quotes Kevin Ovenden, an aide to anti-Israel MP George Galloway, as saying that in two months' time, even before the next Lifeline convoy sets off, several other aid ships will leave Mediterranean ports for Gaza in a convoy initiated by Hamas propagandist Muhammad Sualha, who received political asylum in Britain. Sualha stated in a pro-Hizbullah website that the convoy will include six or seven ships that will depart from Turkey, Greece and Cyprus simultaneously.