They are absolutely exhausted.It has gone very quiet in the scouts chalets of Az Zawiyah, where our convoy is spending the night. Only a handful are still up at this time as a long day awaits them tomorrow in Tripoli and Misrata.

Libya is offering the opportunity to catch up on some well deserved sleep.Tomorrow Tripoli will greet them as the breakers of the siege of Gaza. Libya has been over decades a staunch ally of the Palestinian people.

The sheer size of the convoy and the logistics of keeping it going to the border seems to have been well studied by the Libyan authorities and a program has been designed to give the Libyan people the chance to see, meet and savour this historical moment along the way to the border with Egypt.

According to the Tripoli Post, the convoy is expected to take the span of four days to cross Libyan territories and drive over 1,900 kms, in order to reach Imsa'id's border post with Egypt.

Leading the welcome preparations of the convoy is the Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation (GICDF) which said it is to join the Viva Palestina with its own convoy of medical aid.

GICDF has for over a week been contacting Libyan public and private institutions to contribute to the aid convoy and to take part in the welcoming of the members of this humanitarian mission.

Farid Arada and others.