Yesterday ended with a potluck in a restaurant downtown, on an avenue crowded. A kind of fast food in the cafeteria atmosphere smooth supermarket that does not sacrifice the sound of the street crowded with vehicles and horns. Difficult to speak in this sounding full of policemen.
Among the solutions envisaged, the attempt to force the passage is best shared. Our organization is exploring this hypothesis and attempts to establish an alternative to travel to El Arish, taxi, minibus, scheduled ...
Before going to bed, we stop at the Net cafe close to the hotel for our daily mailing, there is one of the marchers who fed her blog was discovered an interview with an Egyptian minister said on Al Djazeera that Egypt will be a humanitarian gesture towards letting two buses to Gaza, remaining international is invited to enjoy the beaches or historic monuments ... The Egyptian news quickly made the turn of those who are not yet coated and raises doubts: should he believe? this is a start of operation? that in hearing these words?
It is one o'clock in the morning when we turn off the lights, crippled with questions.
Sleep is hard to find. Outside cats are fighting, and horns are still echoing in the night in Cairo.
Around 3am the phone rings Patrice then that of the room rang. Florent is a tersely informed that bus must leave around 7am to Gaza following a negotiation accomplished in the night, one person from our organization will be able to board so it is necessary quickly gather in his room medicine and food that everyone brought, so he can bring to those who leave.
quickly I put pants and jacket and down four floors down, taking care not to make noise. Others have no such precautions, the hotel corridors whispering, squeaking or creaking doors, the elevator of his trademark tone all its judgments on the floors.
Florent's room was transformed into pharmacy. Must find a bag which combine the gifts scattered in a dozen plastic bags, according to Patrick, I sacrifice my backpack (which had the GR 20 Corsica ...) and we decide to go to the bus starting to make images .
At 6: 30 what remains of the night clinging to the tattered gray mist of morning, when we start walking to the bus station, across the island on the Nile, Gezira. At this time the big bridge on 6 October is almost empty: the vehicles are not like most during the day, but run at full speed in a joyous din of plates for the elderly.
We need a long run in the bus station to find the bus, framed by the police. On the wide sidewalk, it is both hope and challenge prevailing. When we arrived, a hundred people there with cameras and cameras, the parties have already completed the first bus. It seems that the second bus has difficulty to fill.
Signs on board were improvised: "GET OUT OF THE NOZZLE", "LET U.S. ALL GO" 1300 PERSONS OR NO ONE ". It discusses firmly to the lanyard doors giving access to the bus. An American recites the names of those who were chosen by their delegation. The conditions of the negotiation around these buses last minute remains mysterious and yet enlighten us much on the position to take.
Should we rejoice to see these two buses from or regret that there have no more on the start?
A squadron of military helmet and shield goes up the back of the bus. It is time to go, especially since few of us could sleep and we all went hungry. A deuxième escadron se met en place à l’avant des bus. Nous ne sommes pas là pour jouer aux gendarmes et aux voleurs avec la police égyptienne.
Retour à l’hôtel pour un petit déjeuner et tenter de rattraper le sommeil. Les flics sont partout, un des marcheurs qui souhaitait rentrer en France doit montrer son billet d’avion pour pouvoir sortir de l’hôtel ! 3 personnes qui partent sont aussitôt pistées par les policiers qui interrogent serveurs et réceptionniste sur leur numéros de chambre.
Pour nous rendre à la réunion collective convoquée à midi sur la terrasse restaurant de l’autre hotel we go light a tour guide in hand to divert and go two blocks to take a taxi.
With the height and a little sleep, things become clearer. We learn that the buses are not finally gone. Yazid, our representative got on the bus is there and explains the handling suffered by the negotiators themselves.
Code Pink organization American who acted alone, it seems, had managed to negotiate 2 buses to go to Gaza. The organization then asked in the early evening with other organizations to designate as 20 minutes to designate one or two people to join the convoy.
Although the method is not satisfactory the French collective associations accepted the proposal after completing the information with local contacts in Gaza (PCHR) and the Embassy of France (which does was not aware). Yazid was appointed as a delegate. In the night, groups of walkers referees were alerted to collect donations.
From the bus, while the delegates were seated, an American has spoken in the bus by saying he erred in accepting the deal proposed by Mubarak, followed by an Egyptian official who congratulated the lucky delegates and spoke words insulting to the protesters outside the bus, 10 minutes later the same official explains that the Palestinians do not want the coming internationals in Gaza, and attempts a demonstration by plugging the phone on the bus microphone while Yazid had just taken its correspondent in Gaza. Faced with this charade, the delegates all stood to leave the bus during and outside the squadrons of police vehicles took place around clearly showing that the party was over. Meanwhile the official announcements were made the rounds of news agencies, and we can read in the newspapers of that day: Egypt made a move to Gaza. (See below new observer of December 30: )
But nothing about the construction of the underground wall on the southern border of Gaza, Egyptian largest construction project since the Nasser in 1960!
During this meeting, Florent confirmed to us that scouts be sent solo by circuitous routes, either by regular bus or taxi are on the refoulés à des étapes plus ou moins avancées de leur voyage pour El Arish sans jamais atteindre leur but. Il est donc hors de question d’organiser de telles expéditions.
Un large débat a suivi ces informations où la nécessité de rassembler le millier de personnes éparpillés dans la ville et de rendre visible leur détermination aux yeux de la presse internationale s’est fortement exprimé.
La marche internationale pour la liberté à Gaza se passera le 31 décembre au Caire.
La vidéo du faux départ des 2 bus :
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Seen in the French press ...
Cairo allows one hundred protesters to march into Gaza
NOUVELOBS.COM move to Gaza. The activists who remain in Cairo announced their intention to continue the ongoing actions.
The Egyptian authorities have proposed to allow
The decision split the delegates from 43 countries came to Cairo to join the Palestinian enclave
from Rafah, a town straddling the Egypt-Gaza Strip to mark the first anniversary of the Israeli offensive against the territory palestinien. "C'est une victoire partielle
", a justifié Medea Benjamin, un militant américain et l'un des organisateurs de la manifestation, face à la colère affichée par certains militants. Il a précisé que le ministère égyptien des Affaires étrangères avait proposé que les organisateurs choisissent les 100 délégués qui seraient autorisés à passer à Gaza. Ces derniers devaient quitter la capitale égyptienne pour l'enclave palestinienne mercredi matin.
Poursuite des actions en cours
The Egyptian offer has angered many activists. A French organizer said she was to sow division
within them. "This will just allow the Egyptian government to get some pictures and the ability to say" we let the world go ', "said Bassam Omar, a Canadian demonstrator. The activists who remain in Cairo announced their intention to continue protest actions in progress.
pro-Palestinian activists have staged several protests and sit-ins to protest against the ban in Egypt. Dozens of French activists and camped outside the embassy of France. An organizer said the French sit-in would continue
. Egypt said to have prevented the protesters from going to Gaza because of the "sensitive situation" in the Palestinian enclave.
27 December 2008 to January 22, 2009, Israel launched a devastating offensive against the Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, killing more than 1,400 killed (Nouvelobs.com) ------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
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