BEIRUT, (PIC)-- Mohammed Sawalha, the deputy chairman of the international committee to lift the siege on Gaza Strip, has revealed that his committee was preparing an aid convoy to be sent to the beleaguered Strip by end of October.

He said in an interview with the PIC reporter in Beirut that the committee decided to ask the Muslim religious Ulama (scholars) to visit the Gaza Strip and to champion an end of its siege.

He said that a legal subcommittee was working on preparing lawsuits against the Israeli occupation authority since the siege of Gaza was a crime in itself because it led to the death of a large number of sick and elderly people.

The committee is pressuring the Egyptian regime through democratic and popular means to amend its stance regarding the siege, Sawalha said.

The deputy chairman spoke of the Arab community in Europe and its role in defending the Palestine cause, noting that a great change had occurred in the European stands as a result.

He also noted that Palestinians in Europe were insisting on the right of return to their homeland, adding that steadfastness of the Palestinian people in occupied Palestine had played a major role in all those changes.