The International Movement to Open Rafah Border is a group of international activists who have been maintaining an encampment at the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza since June. Their goal is to maintain the pressure on the Egyptian government to open the border, and to monitor conditions on the few days a month it is open--usually not more than two or three days, and often not at all.
Despite harrassment from Egyptian border officials, they have maintained their encampment for nearly two months. And this month, for the first time in three years, the crossing was open six days in a row--and is, in fact, still open at this moment.
Six days may not seem like a lot, but it is another sign that joint Palestinian and international actions are, in fact, having a impact. Every protest, convoy, delegation, Free Gaza Movement voyage, encampment and other solidarity action is another crack in the wall of the siege. And any wall can only take so many cracks before it's broken down.
We're off to a good start at the Rafah crossing. Now it's time to start working on Erez!
Is it not disgraceful that Egypt is blockading Gaza? Why, Hamas and Gaza are not even lobbing rockets over the border in order to kill and terrorise Egyptian civilians. If only those damned Egyptian Muslim Arabs were reviled Jews, we could raise in international hullabaloo.
ReplyDeleteBut since they're not, the Egyptian blockade is just fine.