Palestinians from the Israeli- blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday drummed up aid for victims of Haiti earthquake.

The Popular Committee against the Siege staged the campaign before the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC)'s office in Gaza City.

Families of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel, who were participating in their weekly sit-in protest at the ICRC, and others donated blood, clothes, blankets and money as a symbolic support with the earthquake victims.

They also waved banners reading "From the Gaza siege, we are in solidarity with Haiti."

Jamal al-Khodary, head of the anti-siege committee, said that "the Palestinian people, lying under Israeli siege for more than three years, feel the catastrophe of other peoples in the world."

He added that the aid supplies have been handed to the ICRC to forward them to Haiti.

Israel imposed the siege on Gaza in 2007 when Hamas seized control of the coastal enclave. In December 2008, Israel waged a military offensive in Gaza, killing as many as 1,400 Palestinians and destroying thousands of houses and institutions.

(Xinhua News Agency January 19, 2010)