War Veteran Djamila Bouhired leads 80 women towards Gaza
Djamila Bouhired. Photo: Echorouk
Icon and War Veteran Djamila Bouhired leads a delegation of women comprising 80 activist from Arab and foreign countries towards Gaza on the eighth of March, to celebrate the International Women’s Day, as she responded to the call by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Gaza Strip, which promised to facilitate the entry of the delegation to Gaza.
Participation of Djamila Bouhired comes in the framework of the International Women’s Day celebration with the Palestinian women, and denouncing the blockade that is imposed on the Gaza Strip.
This is is the Second activity of Djamila Bouhired to support Palestinians, after she visited both Syria and Lebanon, where she said that the Palestinians are her children and she will join them.
Foreign Affairs’ representative in Gaza, Ghazi Hamad, said: ” The Algerian War Veteran Djamila Bouherd, will reach the Gaza Strip on the head of a delegation comprising 80 women from Arab and foreign nationalities to participate in the celebrations of International Women’s Day with the Palestinian women.”
“Foreign Ministry is intensifying its efforts for coordination to facilitate the entry of the delegation to the Gaza Strip, and it is not yet determined whether they will enter via the Rafah crossing, or Beit Hanoun “Erez” northern Gaza”.
On the other hand the Coordination of Calls for Fair Peace in the Middle East, said that women will come from France, United States, Algeria, Britain and Switzerland, at the beginning of next week, to go to Cairo and then to Rafah, which is the crossing point between Egypt and the Palestinian territories, in order to try to enter Gaza in March 8.
AFP quoted Djamila Bouhired as saying that she will lead a delegation of women towards the Gaza Strip, adding that their entry into Gaza will be through the “Rafah” crossing.
Egyptian authorities did not mention to the possibility of giving any guarantees in order to open the crossing for the delegation until now.