The pacifists who have been stuck for the past three days in Cairo while waiting to get into Gaza have turned down Suzanne Mubarak's offer to allow only 100 of the 1,300 delegates into the Gaza Strip.
"We categorically reject the Egyptian offer of a symbolic gesture", reads a statement released by the Coordinating Committee of the Gaza Freedom March and many delegations (including ones from France, Scotland, Canada, South Africa, Sweden and New York state) which had planned to bring to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip concrete signs of international solidarity, one year after the Israeli military operation Cast Lead.
Following three days of vigils and demonstrations in the Egyptian capital, the activists have made it known that they refuse "to continue to cover the siege of Gaza", and that they will work "to allow all 1,362 participants in the March to get into Gaza as the first step towards the goal of getting the siege lifted and freeing Palestine," said Ziyaad Lunat, member of the committee.
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