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MP George Galloway In Egyptian Police Riot
Controversial MP George Galloway has been involved in scuffles with Egyptian police as a group of pro-Palestinian activists tried to get a relief convoy into the Gaza Strip. Continue reading
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Viva Palestina are faced with 2,000 riot police in the port of Al-Arish!
Our situation is now at a crisis point! Riot has broken out in the port of Al- Arish. We have now blocked the entrance to the port and we are now faced with riot police and water cannons and are determined to defend our vehicles and aid. Continue reading
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Viva Palestina mission to Gaza By Eric Ruder
THE VIVA Palestina convoy to deliver humanitarian relief supplies to the besieged people of Gaza is calling on solidarity activists everywhere to call, e-mail and fax officials of the Egyptian government and gather outside consulates and embassies around the world as the convoy embarks on the last leg of its attempt to cross from Egypt… Continue reading
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GAZA ACTIVISTS IN EGYPT PASSPORT PROTEST By Tim Moynihan, Press Association
Yesterday’s demonstrations came after the first group of 157, including the Respect MP George Galloway, arrived at El-Arish airport in Egypt on a flight from Syria, waiting to be united with the aid, which has travelled to the same destination by sea. Continue reading
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VIVA PALESTINA WIN AIRPORT BATTLE
Now, I report to you that in the past hour 157 Viva Palestina convoy members passports were taken away at Al-Arish airport by the Egyptian authorities. The Egyptians also removed the passport’s of British MP George Galloway and convoy leader Kevin Ovenden. Continue reading
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Viva Palestina first group has landed in Al Arish
The first group has landed in Al Arish and discussions are taking place to resolve outstanding difficulties. Should those discussions not be successful, we ask you to please standby to protest tomorrow afternoon and evening GMT to Egyptian representatives and outside Egyptian interest i.e. Egyptian Embassy and consulate. Continue reading
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GazaFriends: From the pyramids to the checkpoints, we have had many victories in Egypt By Emily Ratner
The Gaza Freedom March announced the Cairo Declaration to End Israeli Apartheid on January 1st, and so yesterday hundreds of Marchers smuggled freedom’s smoke signals in our luggage as we climbed into buses, vans, and taxis and made a mad dash for the Rafah border crossing. My own van was pulled over at the first… Continue reading
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Viva Palestina aid convoy hours away from breaking Gaza siege
The Viva Palestina international aid convoy is just hours away from breaking Israel’s three and a half year siege of Gaza. Despite repeated obstructions from the Egyptian government, including its refusal to allow the convoy to land in the Egyptian port of Nuweiba, convoy members hope to be in Gaza tomorrow. Continue reading
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Gaza Freedom March Wrap Up
I’m sure its going to take me some time to process everything that has happened in Cairo with the Gaza Freedom March over the past week or so but here are some of my initial thoughts and feelings. Bear in mind, these are my own opinions and reflections and they surely are not the same… Continue reading
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Protests held against Gaza siege
Activists, both from Gaza and abroad, have held demonstrations on either side of an Israeli border crossing to the Palestinian territory, protesting against its continued siege by Israel. Continue reading
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Gaza Freedom March in Israel
For months international, Israeli, and Palestinian activists have been planning the Gaza Freedom March. Organizers hoped an international delegation of 1300 activists from around the world would break the siege on Gaza by marching through Gaza to the northern border and through the Erez crossing, join the Israeli march. The Real News attended the Israeli… Continue reading
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Stuart Littlewood – Reaching the Gates of Hell is not so Easy
31 December, 2009 — Palestine Think Tank (VIA Redress) Egyptian ruler Mubarak torpedoes international voluntary aid to Gaza Stuart Littlewood considers the predicament of the Viva Palestina international humanitarian convoy – the culmination of voluntary work by thousands of supporters, fund-raisers and donors in the UK, Europe and internationally – whose journey to besieged Gaza… Continue reading
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Shoeless in Cairo by Mary Hughes-Thompson
In about an hour the Gaza Freedom Marchers in Cairo will be meeting in Tahrir Square to celebrate the beginning of 2010. January 1st will be the fifth day of my hunger strike. Continue reading
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Viva Palestina: Today we marched!
Nur it was wonderful … Tahrir Square we swarmed the place like ants. French, British, Egyptians, Palestinians we were everwhere flying flags, waving Kafeyahs … shouting and chanting … It was wonderful … The Egyptians hung out of windows and we cursed Mubarak … Continue reading
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Cairo meets the movement, with tears and chaos and exaltation By Philip Weiss
Over the last week, as the international marchers arrived in Egypt, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry made it very clear that it did not want them going into Gaza, and it would arrest them short of that goal. But these 1400 are not tourists or milquetoasts, they are activists; and they were not going to be… Continue reading
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Viva Palestina Update 30 December, 2009
The problem has been this: On first arriving we had a legal ban placed on us. Europeans have organised on a basis where we do not take any notice of the law. Codepink have used those activities to put pressure on the Egyptian authorities. Continue reading
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Viva Palestina rebuts Egyptian ‘bungle’ allegations
The Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit claimed at a press conference on Tuesday (December 29) that his country was willing to assist the Viva Palestina convoy’s entry into Gaza. He cited two letters sent by the Egyptian embassy in London on November 10 and December 10. What he does not say is that the… Continue reading
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GAZA FREEDOM MARCH Only 100 people allowed into Gaza; sounds like a lot of marchers are angry
Haidar Eid, the coordinator of the Gaza Freedom March Steering Committee in Gaza talked with one of the GFM coordinators Tighe Barry and said that he understood that it would not be 1300 delegates, but was elated to hear that there will be 100 people coming tomorrow to represent the over 40 countries. Their group… Continue reading
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Egypt Approves Gaza Freedom March Passage, Viva Palestina Blunders Paperwork and Blames Egypt By Haitham Sabbah
In a press conference conducted earlier this evening, the Egyptian foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit announced some threats, warnings, surprises as well as some good news. The press conference that aired on Egyptian official TV a few hours ago was boiling with Aboul Gheit’s very firm and angry answers to the journalists’ questions who did… Continue reading
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U.S. Citizens attacked by Egyptian Riot Police in Cairo in front of U.S. Embassy By Cindy Sheehan
One of my friends, Joshua Smith, just texted me from Cairo and said that some U.S. citizens of the Gaza Freedom March went to the U.S. Embassy today there to try and implore the staff there to intercede on behalf of the March to help get them into Gaza—they were not so warmly welcomed. Continue reading
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