Tag: Rafah

  • 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…

  • ‘Who will hold us accountable?’

    Natalie Abou Shakra | Electronic Intifada 15 July 2009 I will never forget the image of the elderly woman whose son was dying in a hospital in Egypt. She only wanted to be with him. Crying, her hand touching the glass window of the office of the Egyptian intelligence services, she pleaded, “Please, please. I…