Egypt Sends Dutch Participants of Gaza March Back to Istanbul: 'Passport Confiscated, Interrogated and Put on a Plane'

NRC Handelsblad

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From the checkpoints, participants of the march send messages to NRC. The situation is "shadowy": passports are confiscated, roads are blocked and international activists chant pro-Palestinian slogans.

NOS

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Activists on their way to Gaza were stopped at the border with Egypt. Some of them are still in detention, others have flown to Istanbul.

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Egypt has expelled dozens of Dutch participants in the March to Gaza. They were arrested by the police after arriving at Cairo airport, interrogated and put on a plane back to Istanbul, Turkey. Among them are André from Rotterdam and Katja van Rennes, the sister of Gaza activist Mark van Rennes, who is currently being held in an Israeli cell.

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Thankfully, the Italian participants in the "Global March to Gaza" were simply stopped and deported by the Egyptian authorities, as they themselves denounce, instead of passing through the tortures of the "rapimento" perpetrated by the Israelis against the Kefiah crew of Freedom Flotilla. The images of Greta Thunberg finally free, removed from the clutches of the Jewish State's aguzzini on the wave of international indignation for the barbaric a…

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The Egyptian government has bowed to Israeli pressure and arrested hundreds of people in an attempt to stop the march to Gaza. However, thousands of people remain ready to start the march, in order to put pressure on Israel to break the blockade and stop the genocide. Melisa Pérez García from Vitoria-Gasteiz is in Cairo, she was arrested on Wednesday morning, along with several other members. Unlike many others, they have been released.