Convoy to Gaza cancelled

Central Cairo was a barrack yesterday to stop a popular campaign that hoped to break the siege on Gaza, security forces cordoned off areas surrounding the Press syndicate. Police officers searched the people in the middle of the streets and banned the access of whoever found participant in the convoy, and for the first time the Egyptian company for the Subway management and operation closed one of its stations downtown to prevent ordinary people from getting mixed or joining the convoy members’ protests, a step that was meant to tighten the security over the entire region.

As a reaction the convoy organizers decided to relocate their meeting in front of Al-Ahram newspaper’s building, but security cordoned them off again and detained tens of activists and journalists. Security demanded them to leave and not to hold the conference in return for releasing the detained activists and journalists. Although the protesters accepted something ignited clashes with the security.

On the other hand, In Rafah, Egyptian security arrested more than 100 activist to stop a convoy that managed to reach Salahuddin gate at the Rafah border crossing. Mahmoud el khodairy head of the “Popular committee to break the siege on Gaza” saidthat the committee cancelled its march so that the security could let lose the detained activists. El Khodairy described the situation that “the Egyptian are subjected to a siege  done by the security forces similar to one imposed on the Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli forces”.