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Both the Egyptian and Libyan authorities have stopped activists trying to stop the Israeli blockade in Gaza, protest organizers said more detention and deportation.
“Forty global marches on Gaza’s passports have been brought into a checkpoint, leaving Cairo,” Gaza, the organizers of the global march, said in a statement on Friday.
“They are kept in the heat and are not allowed to move,” they continued, adding that there are still “15” in the hotels.
Activists are from France, Spain, Canada, Turkiye and the United Kingdom, saying, adding: “We are a peaceful movement and adhere to the laws of Egypt.”
The group encouraged the embassies to help ensure their release so they could complete their flight.
Activists arrived in Egypt this week for a global move to Gaza, a popular initiative aimed at pressure in Israel to allow the supply of help and humanitarian supply to Gaza’s starvation.
The organizers said that participants from 80 countries are expected to start their march to the crossing of Egypt Rafah with Gaza, and about 4,000 activists are expected to participate.
Overland protest was coincided with other solidarity efforts, including a boat that carried assistance and activists who intercepted Israeli military personnel earlier this week when it tried to reach Gaza.
Detention and deportations
According to the plans set out by the organizers, the participants had to take the bus to El Arish, the city in a heavily securitized Sinai Peninsula, before going on the last 50 km (30 miles) to Raf. The protesters planned the camp near the border before returning to Cairo on June 19.
However, the Egyptian police stopped several groups of foreign citizens on the way, putting vehicles from Ismailia, just outside Sinai, to pull about 30 km (20 miles). Activists said the police ordered passengers to get out of non -farmed passports by blocking their transition to Rafah.
Paul Murphy, an independent member of the Irish Parliament who has gone to Egypt to participate, said in a report X said: “We have had our own passports confiscated and detained.
Mo, a member of the protest march from the Netherlands, said his group had gone taxis to Ismailia, but at the checkpoint, near the city, foreigners ordered passports, and only Egyptians were allowed. He also described the unrest police who came to clear the path of protesters.
Now back in Cairo, Mo and the group from the Netherlands decide what to do next.
“We are trying to regroup,” he told Al Jazeera. “Most of our groups are divided, some have been beaten by the police… That’s why they come back to a broken and broken and broken.”
“It seems that the Egyptian authorities are committed to stopping us anywhere near the border.”
Security sources told Reuters that at least 88 people had been detained or deported from Cairo airport and other locations across the country.
Three airport sources Reuters said at least 73 foreign citizens had been deported to Istanbul for violation of entry protocols, and the airport is still waiting for the deportation of 100 more.
Cairo International Airport officials said airlines were issued new directives that require all passengers traveling to Egypt from June 12 to 16 to hold approved tickets, Reuters reported.
The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that all visits to the Rafah border must previously be coordinated with Egyptian embassies or official bodies, referring to security reasons in the sinema.
Martha’s organizers maintain that they coordinated a trip with the authorities and called on the government to release detainees.
Caravan blocked in Libya
Known as the “Soumoud”, the land caravan, which had gone from Tunisia, transporting activists from Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania, was suspended on Friday morning at the entrance to the entrance to Libya, controlling forces, which was loyal to the military commander Khalifa Haftar.
“The caravan was denied passing through the entrance to Sirte in the city,” Tunisian organizer Wael Naouar told a video posted on Facebook.
Naouar said the caravans need an Egyptian permit to reach Gaza but received mixed messages from local security officials. “Some told us that we could cross in a few hours. Others insisted that” Egypt has denied (transition), and so you won’t stand, “he said.
On Wednesday, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered military demonstrators to block demonstrators from entering Gaza from Egypt, claiming that people involved are “jihadist protesters”.
“I hope the Egyptian authorities will not allow them to reach the Egyptian and Israeli border and prevent them from provocations and trying to get into Gaza,” he added.
It comes when Israel continues its relentless air strikes to Gaza, while seriously restricting the flow of help, including food, water and medical accessories, as humanitarian experts warn that an enclave could fall into full -scale starvation unless Israel does not lift the blockade.
