The story of a bottle sailed from Greece to Gaza as a "love letter"

The US NPR website reported the story of a letter inside a plastic bottle that was able to travel 800 kilometers from Greece to reach the besieged Gaza Strip, called "Marhaba" in English. The site said in a report, Saturday, that one of the Palestinian fishermen picked up that transparent bottle and inside a letter folded, saying: "This is the first message found in the sea in my life." "Hello, thank you for taking the bottle of water. We are spending our vacation on the Greek island of Rhodes; we loved to know how far the bottle could reach the message inside it, even if it was on the other side of the island's coast," the letter says. "The bottle went more than expected by the owners to reach the shore of the Gaza Strip, which is besieged on the Mediterranean Sea, to be picked up by Jihad al-Sultan, a 54-year-old Palestinian fisherman with seven children," the Sultan said. E-mail and signature "Zack & Beth". Bethany Wright, a 22-year-old British student and his 25-year-old girlfriend, Zach Marinar, where they received letters from the UK and inside them. The site pointed out that Beth and his girlfriend Zack delivered their last message, which reached the Gaza Strip on 4 July last, to be found by the Palestinian fisherman on August 15, more than a month later. The Palestinian fisherman used one of his relatives to respond to the letter "Zach and Beeth", in which they expressed their gratitude to both of them as a message to break the siege imposed on them. "The arrival of the letter inside the bottle by sea proves that we are one world, bound by one environment that is linked to love and affection," Beth said in a letter to the American website.