Source: Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
PSNA has conveyed to the Egyptian government its shock and anger at the deportation of a Palestinian New Zealander from Egypt yesterday (Thurs eds).
PSNA says Rana Hamida was deported because she planned to take part in the Global March to Gaza. Others deported include Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Moroccan, Greek and US citizens.
The Global March to Gaza is due to start today in Egypt with thousands of people from throughout the world taking part.
“PSNA Co-Chair John Minto says the march is to express humanity’s outrage at the ongoing Gaza-wide bombing and starving of the Palestinian population by Israel in Occupied Gaza.
“Egypt’s action in deporting activists can only be seen as assisting Israel’s attacks against the Palestinian population.”
“Unfortunately, Egypt has a long history of collaboration with the US and Israel to stifle the Palestine liberation struggle. This is in sharp contrast to the Egyptian people who are as appalled and angry as the rest of humanity at Israel’s horrendous war crimes.”
“We received this message from Rana as she makes her way home:
“They Egyptian authorities along with other governments think that blocking humanity from this act of solidarity will stop because of them blocking people from being there and doing the job that they continue failing to do !!!
They are so mistaken – the more complicit and enabling they get in their inactions and in this case their active participation, the more we will rise, and roar.
We are escalating as you awaken the dragons within us.
We will sing louder and we will walk longer — with our hiking shoes in the Sinai desert, or barefoot towards your embassies. We will disrupt your meetings, we will crowd your phone with calls and emails, and we will be the light that blinds your robotic heart and melts it alongside the lies you stand for.
This is not about us, it is about HUMANITY within us that is dying and being oppressed in various forms, it is about the humans enduring hell in Gaza, West Bank and Falastine as a whole.
Muslims, Jews and Christians together.
It is about NEVER AGAIN !!!
Boycott, divest — We will not stop we will not rest.
John Minto
Co-Chair
Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa
