DAY 17: Tuesday 5 October
In the early hours of this morning, the convoy leadership left for Damascus - a four hour drive away - for high level diplomatic talks that are also being attended by George Galloway, that will hopefully end with us being given free passage to Egypt and then Al Arish.
Here in Lattakia, we have made the camp home, setting up security, admin and first aid offices,and stringing up makeshift clothes lines for our washing.
We also spent several hours yesterday and this afternoon sorting out the aid, including the cement bought with donations from PSC members, that will be carried into Gaza.
Many of the Palestinians from the area have been visiting us, and their energy and enthusiasm for our journey has been fantastic. The children have been brilliant - cheeky and beautiful as they run around among our huts, happily pinning PSC's Free Palestine badges to their clothes.
But it's hard to answer, because of the lump in your throat, when our visitors wish us success in reaching their homeland, and tell us they have never seen it, or, perhaps worse, when they ask us if we can take them with us, knowing their entry into Palestine is an impossibility.
Convoy leaders are in Damascus negotiating on our passage into Egypt, then Gaza.
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