Hundreds of activists cross into Gaza on solidarity trip in the face of Israeli aggression

“Almost 500 of us, mostly Egyptian activists moved to Al Shifa hospital Gaza for solidarity rally. We got convoy through Rafah, who would’ve thought?” tweeted an Egypt-based activist late Sunday as the group begun their visit to the city by visiting a Gaza hospital. A bus convoy transporting members of several Egyptian parties and political movements arrived at the country’s Rafah border crossing with Gaza, officials said, as Israeli airstrikes heavily pounded the coastal Palestinian enclave for a fifth day causing more innocent victims,

• “We want the free world to stop the heinous Israeli onslaught on defenseless civilians in Gaza,” said Mahmoud Ali of the Constitution Party, according to news agency MENA. “We want to relay to the steadfast Palestinian people the support of all Egyptians.”
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• The Egyptian online newspaper, Ahram Online, reported the number of activists crossing into Gaza had reached 550, with the convoy including eight buses, along with several other smaller vehicles.
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• “We brought them medical supplies in coordination with the Egyptian Red Crescent,” activist Amira Sheaishaa said.
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• “We all entered through Rafah border … 100s now attempting to enter Gaza,” activist Gigi Ibrahim said on her Twitter account, according to foreign news outlets.
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• But early Monday, members of the delegation began tweeting that they were witness to “large explosions which rattled Gaza”.

• Palestinian sources said accommodation in hotels and other facilities to house the ever-increasing number of pro-Palestinian activists crossing into Gaza were overfilled and an extra budget estimated at more than 200.000 dollars had been earmarked in an emergency move to cope with the surging influx of all the well-meaning people from other countries willing to show their active solidarity with the heroic Gaza people in the face of the wanton Israeli acts of aggression.