Tag: International Campaign to Open the Rafah Border

  • Global actions target Egyptian embassies to break Israel’s closure of Gaza

    26 August 2011 | International Campaign to Open the Rafah Border Fed up with the closure of Gaza that has kept more than a million and a half Palestinians locked in to the strip’s tight borders, a beacon call is coming from Gaza and resonating across to Egypt, to break Israel’s siege and re-open the…

  • IMORB: End the siege on Gaza, open the Rafah border

    Dear friends, Please take a few minutes on Monday to call the Egyptian embassy in your country to demand the Rafah border be opened! Since June 13, when International Movement to Open the Rafah Border members set their sit-in at the Rafah Gate, we witnessed the Egyptian authorities’ collaboration in the Gaza siege enforced by…

  • Joy and shame at Rafah

    International Movement to Open the Rafah Border 16 July 2009 Yesterday, July 15, should have been a day of rejoicing here at Rafah Gate because the Viva Palestina convoy had finally been authorized to enter Gaza, but it turned into a nightmare for the many Palestinian families held up on the Egyptian side. Finally, at…

  • International activists continue protests at Rafah border

    International Campaign to Open the Rafah Border 12 July 2009 We are actually 16 people in our camp with mainly Egyptian activists. Yesterday afternoon, the Egyptian authorities put barbed wire at the door of the bathroom and cut the water, so now, we have no more access to the bathroom. Chris says : “Fortunately, I…

  • Steadfastness and solidarity at the Rafah border

    16 June 2009 Under pressure from the Egyptian army and the police, the International Movement to Open the Rafah Border ( IMORB), is maintaining their camp at the Rafah Border. The group is growing; now 26 people from France, USA, Germany, Egypt, Belgium, and Sweden. Yesterday, our Italian friend left us for his job in…