Hundreds of concerned professionals – including lawyers, journalists, doctors, and representatives of humanitarian organisations representing over 30 countries – are expected to join the Global March to Gaza, starting from Cairo next week (12th June).
They will march to the Rafah crossing in northern Sinai to urgently highlight the plight of the Palestinians and call for an end to the 3-month almost total blockade of humanitarian aid of food and medical supplies to Gaza.
The Global March to Gaza is supported by almost 200 charities and NGOs working in war- torn Palestine, where almost 55,000 people, many children, have been killed and over a million Palestinians have been left homeless, injured or dejected.
International efforts by the United Nations and many European countries and NGOs to end the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza have not ended the aid blockade. The “peoples” Global March is a new effort to break the deadlock and highlight the desperate plight in Gaza.
The Global March will begin in Cairo, Egypt and move to the city of Al-Arish before marching to the Rafah crossing on June 14th where a large protest rally is planned on June 15th and the expected 3,000 marchers will stay on for as further few days.
The Global March is supported by the recent Freedom Flotilla convey, supported. By climate activist Greta Thunberg and others to bring in much-needed aid to Gaza by sea.
The planned march comes after the collapse of the January ceasefire and the bombardment of Gaza by the Israeli Defence Forces air, land and sea to “eliminate” Hamas and to demand the return of the remaining October 2023 Israeli hostages.
The Gaza border was closed to most humanitarian aid on March 2nd, and according to the UN and humanitarian agencies there is now an urgent humanitarian crisis in Gaza where thousands Palestinians are being moved and corralled into “safe areas”, are starving without food aid and dying without medical aid.
In the last few days limited food has been allowed into Gaza through a new, but controversial, America-Israel supported foundation by passing the usual aid networks through the UN.
Learn more by visiting the Global March to Gaza linktree link.
- International media reports (Al Jazeera, Reuters, Associated Press, The Guardian, Anadolu Agency, Islam21c).
- Official statements from governments, the UN, humanitarian agencies, and NGOs.
- Policy analysis and research from academic and regional institutions.
