LIVERPOOL-BORN comedian and writer Alexei Sayle joined a line- up of celebrities calling on American president- elect Barack Obama to speak up against the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
Last night Israel allowed hundreds of Palestinians with foreign passports to leave besieged Gaza.
But it kept up attacks for a sixth day, and ex- model Bianca Jagger, singer Annie Lennox and the former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, joined the campaign to end the violence.
Ms Jagger called to president-elect Obama to speak up, and said: "We must appeal to him to ask for the immediate cessation of the bombardment of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip."
