Demonstrators confiscated passports before planning a global march to Egypt's Gaza border
Organizers told CBC News that more than 40 Canadians have been detained for a global march in Gaza, Egypt, and their passports have been confiscated.
A group of 83 Canadians arrived in Cairo on Wednesday and Thursday to try to raise concerns about the deep humanitarian crisis facing Palestinians amid a 20-month lockdown after the attacks on the Israeli lockdown.
Palestinian Montreal and March coordinator Tatiana Harker said Canadians were thousands of other protesters heading to Al-Arish, where they were expected to start a three-day march with Egypt and Egypt's peaceful demonstrations with Gaza.
“Many people are detained and stayed in [heat] There is no answer, two to three hours,” Huck told CBC News in Montreal on Friday.
Hak said Egyptian authorities seized their passports at a checkpoint in the Suez Canal city of Ismailia on Friday, but provided no reason.
“this [Canadians] There has been no answer to contact the Canadian Embassy. Our government completely ignores us. ”
Ottawa family physician Dr Yipeng GE, one of the protesters of the Canadian group, was told that they would not allow them to cross the Ismailia checkpoint unless they were Egyptians.
“People haven't taken back their passports. Some have been waiting for hours,” GE said in a post on Friday's X. The video showed hundreds of protesters shouting “Free, Free Palestine.”
“Someone was told to get their passport back and they had to take the bus to the airport and be deported.”
Canadian Global Affairs said in an earlier statement to CBC News that it advised Canadians to avoid all travel to North Sinai and Gaza in Egypt.
“Canadians who choose to travel to the region will be stolen,” it said Thursday.
More militants were detained after early deportation
Demonstrators were arranged to go to the coastal Egyptian city of Al-Alish for a 48-km walk on Friday, sleeping along the tents that crossed Rafah. Canadian organizers told CBC that authorities did not allow protesters to bus there and had to find other modes of transportation to reach Alassi.
According to the league, they plan to camp in the Rafa area for about three days before returning to Cairo websiteAlthough it noted that most of their plans would depend on the authorization of Egyptian officials.
Egyptian authorities detained more militants on Friday, who were March protesters participating in the program, from 80 different countries, while security forces in eastern Libya blocked a group of militants to meet them.
In recent years, the global march in Gaza will be one of the largest demonstrations of its kind, in line with other efforts, including a ship carrying radical activities and aid that was intercepted to Gaza by Israeli military aisles earlier this week.
Organizers said Friday that authorities confiscated passports of 40 people and planned to march into a checkpoint outside Cairo, where they were heated. Others were detained in hotels. They urged officials from the activist's homeland to prompt Egypt to release its citizens.
Friday's detention was detained before hundreds of people arrived in Cairo and deported to their home countries in Europe and North Africa. Before authorities confiscate their passports, activists said they plan to gather on the road to Sinai to prepare for Sunday's parade. They said authorities have not granted them authorization to travel through Sinai, which Egypt considers is a highly sensitive area.
“We continue to urge the Egyptian government to allow this peaceful march, which is consistent with Egypt's own commitment to restore border stability and resolve the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza,” activists said in a statement.
Group Avoid Demo
Hicham El-Ghaoui, one of the group's spokesmen, said they would not show the demonstration until it was clear whether Egypt would authorize the protest.
The planned demonstrations have attracted uncomfortable attention in Egypt, one of the Arab countries, who publicly condemned the aid restrictions and called for an end to the war.
Belgian human rights lawyer Alexis Deswaef said he woke up on Friday and dozens of security vehicles filled the unified officers around Talat Harb Square where he and other militants found the hotel. When safely entered, his team members stole the hall from the hall, took the guide and helped an official, booking a taxi from the pyramids in Giza, and since then.
“I was very surprised to see the Egyptians doing dirty work in Israel,” he said from the pyramid. He hoped that there would be too many radicals at the new meeting point outside Cairo, and the Egyptian authorities arrested a large number of events.
Meanwhile, an aid convoy traveling overland from Algeria picked up new participants on the route between Tunisia and Libya, but stopped in the city of Sirte, about 940 kilometers from the Libya-Egypt border.
As international outcry grows in Gaza, this effort – radical Flotilla, land convoys and planned parades.
Israel continued to raid the territory with air raids while limiting the flow of trucks of food, water and medicine that could enter, saying it was putting pressure on Hamas to disarm and release Israeli hostages.
