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400 Egyptians turned away from Gaza border
Hundreds of Egyptian activists ended a sit-in along the Rafah border crossing on Sunday, Egypt's state-run Daily News reported, after being denied entry into Gaza. Demonstration organizer Omar Abdullah told the Daily News that some 400 opposition group and union members headed to the newly opened crossing on Friday in five buses loaded with food and aid, to protest what he said was a government ban on the group, preventing them from entering Gaza. "We were told that the Palestinian officials were busy preparing for the visit of Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa to Gaza [on Sunday] and could not receive this number of activists," Abdullah, a Muslim Brotherhood movement member, told the newspaper, saying he believed Palestinian officials were pressured to reject the visit. Abdullah said the aid was seized by Egyptian officers as the convoy headed north to Gaza, and was reprotedly told that the goods would be transferred into Israel via the Al-Ouja crossing, then transferred into Gaza. "Such an act reflects bad intentions," Abdallah was quoted as saying about the move. Posted by: Fred 2010-06-15 |
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