"December 26th - Over 500 people from 20 countries, in 250 vehicles loaded with Humanitarian Aid, are left stranded in Aqaba, Jordan, having been refused permission to enter Egypt. The Egyptian Government have placed 3 conditions on the convoy if it wants to enter Egypt.
1. We hand all our vehicles and aid over to UNRA.
2. We drive 500 miles back to Syria, and take a 24 hour ferry through the Suez Canal.
3. We have to ask Israel for permission to cross from Egypt to Gaza.
2. We drive 500 miles back to Syria, and take a 24 hour ferry through the Suez Canal.
3. We have to ask Israel for permission to cross from Egypt to Gaza.
All 3 conditions have been flatly rejected by everyone on the convoy, as we want to cross into Gaza and hand our aid over to the Palestinians ourselves. For the 1st time, Egypt has now openly admitted that they are under control of Israel/US.
Tomorrow marks the 1st anniversary of the start of the 22 day massacre of over 1,400 people. In solidarity, we are all going to embark on a fast. We will all fast for as long as it takes for us to get into Gaza with our aid. We are calling on people all over the world to fast with us, and with the Palestinians, who fast every day due to the illegal siege imposed upon them by Israel/US/Egypt.
Viva is calling on you to contact the Egyptian Embassy and demand that we be allowed to enter Gaza and deliver our aid with our own hands. The contact details for the Egyptian Embassy in USA are: 202.966.6342, mailto:Consulate@egyptembassy.net
Please contact them, and express your outrage at their refusal to allow Humanitarian Aid into Gaza."
Below is my email to the Egyptian embassy:
"Dear Mr. Ambassador,
This is so sad and must be so humiliating to every Egyptian to submit to the open blackmail of the US and Israel. Have the proud Egyptians no pride left? Is everything for sale, even human dignity?
How else can you explain the refusal of your government the entry of a convoy of hundreds of vehicles and over 500 mostly European volunteers, who undertook this mission of mercy to bring in badly needed medicine, food and other essential supplies to the starved and besieged people of Gaza?
We are not asking you to supply anything to the Palestinians of Gaza; just stop killing them!
Your government talks about the sovereignty of Egypt and yet it has no dignity when it demands that the convoy obtain Israeli permission to enter Egypt on its way to Gaza. What does Israel have to do with this? What happened to the false Egyptian sovereignty? Does this not imply that the Sinai is still occupied Israeli territory?
Israeli tourists can go to resorts in the Sinai without a visa being required by Egypt, yet European humanitarian workers are not allowed to simply transit through the Sinai! What shame, what humiliation to the proud Egypt!
Either you allow the convoy in and convince the world that the Sinai is indeed Egyptian territory, or openly admit that it is still occupied and Egypt has no control or sovereignty over it.
Sincerely,
Dr. Antone Sayegh"
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