Canadian demonstrators held and budget passports before a planned global march to the borders of Egypt Gaza

Organizers told CBC News that more than 40 Canadians are planning to participate in the global march to Gaza in Egypt, who have been detained and their passports were confiscated by the authorities.

A group of 83 Canadians arrived in Cairo on Wednesday and Thursday, before Practice To Egypt’s borders with Gaza, an attempt to draw attention to the in -depth humanitarian crises facing the Palestinians under the Israeli siege on the war torn, more than 20 months after the start of the attacks.

Tatiana Harker, a member of Palestine, Febra Montreal and coordinator of March, said that the Canadians were among the thousands of other demonstrators on their way to the Arish, where they were expected to start a three -day march towards the crossing of Rafa Al -Masry with Gaza to carry a peaceful demonstration there.

“Many people are detained, and they leave (heat) without any answers, for two to three hours,” Harker told CBC News on Montreal on Friday.

Harker said that the Egyptian authorities confiscated their passports at a checkpoint in the city of Soyes for Ismail channel on Friday without providing a reason.

“(Canadians) called the Canadian embassy in Cairo without any answer at all. Our government is completely ignoring us.”

Utawa family doctor, Dr. Yiping Ji, one of the demonstrators in the Canadian group, said they were told that they would not be allowed to cross Ismail’s checkpoint unless he was Egyptian.

“People do not get their passports,” GM said at A. mail On Friday, with a video of hundreds of demonstrators, they chanted “Palestine is free and free”, where they are held at the checkpoint.

“Some people have been informed of the restoration of their passports, and they must get a bus to the airport to deport them.”

Global affairs in Canada said in a previous statement of CBC news that it advises Canadians to avoid all travel to the governor of North Sinai in Egypt and Gaza.

“The Canadians who choose to travel to the area do this for their own responsibility,” said on Thursday.

More activists were detained after previous deportations

The demonstrators were appointed to the bus to the coastal city of Arish in Egypt to participate in the 48 -km walking on Friday, and sleeping in the tents along the Rafah crossing. The Canadian organizers told CBC that the authorities did not allow the demonstrators to the bus there, and they had to find other transportation patterns to reach the Arish.

After arriving in the Rafah area, they are planning the camp there for another three days before returning to Cairo, according to the alliance WebsiteAlthough she noticed that many of their plans will depend on the permission of Egyptian officials.

The Egyptian authorities detained more activists on Friday who were among the demonstrators who joined the planned march from 80 different countries, while the security forces in eastern Libya prevented a convoy of activists on their way to meet them.

The global march on Gaza was to be among the largest demonstrations of its kind in recent years, and in line with other efforts, including a The boat holds activists The assistance that the Israeli army intercepted on its way to Gaza earlier this week.

The organizers said on Friday that the authorities confiscated passports from 40 people planning the march at a checkpoint outside Cairo, where they are being held in the temperature. Others are held in hotels. They urged officials from home countries to activists to push Egypt to release their citizens.

The arrest of Friday comes after hundreds of people who arrived in Cairo were arrested and deported to their countries of origin in Europe and North Africa. Before the authorities confiscated their passports, the activists said they intend to gather at a camp site on the road to Sinai to prepare for the Sunday march. They said that the authorities did not give them permission to travel through Sinai, which Egypt considers a very sensitive area.

“We are still urging the Egyptian government to allow this peaceful march, which is compatible with Egypt’s declared commitment to restore stability on its borders and address the continuous humanitarian crisis in Gaza,” activists said in a statement.

A group to refrain from clarify now

Hesham Al -Ghwi, one of the official speakers of the group, said they will refrain from showing him until he received clarity about whether Egypt will allow their protest.

The planned demonstrations shed light on Egypt’s uncomfortable to Egypt, and it is one of the Arab countries that have taken the supporters of the Palestinians even while publicly convicted of aid restrictions and calls for war.

Alexis Desoa, a Belgian human rights lawyer, said on Friday that he woke up on dozens of security vehicles full of unified officers surrounding Talaat Harb, where he and other activists found hotels. The members of his group were involved in the hallway with the introduction of security, with a guide to a guide and asking the officer to reserve taxis to the Pyramids of Giza, where they have been since then.

He said from the pyramids: “I am very surprised to see the Egyptians do dirty work for Israel.” He expressed his hope that there will be many activists at the new meeting point outside Cairo for the Egyptian authorities to collectively arrest.

Meanwhile, the relief convoy, which travels by land from Algeria, picked new participants along the road in Tunisia and Libya, yet it was stopped in the city of my city, about 940 km from the borders of Libya and Egypt.

The efforts made by the activist – the activist, the Overland convoy and the planned march – at a time when international screams grow on the circumstances in Gaza.

Israel continued to hit the region with air strikes while reducing the flow of trucks that carry food, water and medicines that could enter, saying it applies pressure on Hamas to disarm and release Israeli hostages.