It was the second straight day that Mouzala Ioannis, five other physicians and a nurse from Doctors of Peace waited at the locked Rafah crossing amid eerie silence. Ioannis blamed the Egyptian government for holding up more than 25 trucks and SUVs filled with medical supplies donated by Greece, Turkey, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
- http://indybay.org/
Egypt is facing sharp condemnation from elsewhere in the Arab world. Near the border — closed to visitors, including journalists, both ways — there is a heavy presence of police, military and secret police, the Mukhabarat, and numerous checkpoints along the roads on the way to the split border town of Rafah, which has been declared a military zone. The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and his ally, the Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon, have called on Egypt to open the border and the Egyptian people to break down the barriers. But Egyptian forces have clashed with Palestinians trying to leave Gaza, and Mr. Mubarak has said firmly that the border will remain closed.
- http://nytimes.com/
MY COMMENT:
“Chaos at the Gaza-Egyptian border, with aid shipments halted and the gates firmly shut।”“Egypt and France propose plan to end Gaza conflict.”“Egypt offers humanitarian aid.”
These are excerpts from 3 news reports. So I ask ‘what role is Egypt really playing in the on-going crisis between Israel and Gaza?’ On one side, they sent out 30 closely-monitored ambulances into Gaza and on the other, ‘…holding up more than 25 trucks and SUVs filled with medical supplies donated by Greece, Turkey, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.’ I believe that Egypt’s aid to Gaza is more political than humanitarian; they are really focused on the political gains in the Israeli-Gaza crisis than actual assistance to the victims.
- http://indybay.org/
Egypt is facing sharp condemnation from elsewhere in the Arab world. Near the border — closed to visitors, including journalists, both ways — there is a heavy presence of police, military and secret police, the Mukhabarat, and numerous checkpoints along the roads on the way to the split border town of Rafah, which has been declared a military zone. The Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and his ally, the Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon, have called on Egypt to open the border and the Egyptian people to break down the barriers. But Egyptian forces have clashed with Palestinians trying to leave Gaza, and Mr. Mubarak has said firmly that the border will remain closed.
- http://nytimes.com/
MY COMMENT:
“Chaos at the Gaza-Egyptian border, with aid shipments halted and the gates firmly shut।”“Egypt and France propose plan to end Gaza conflict.”“Egypt offers humanitarian aid.”
These are excerpts from 3 news reports. So I ask ‘what role is Egypt really playing in the on-going crisis between Israel and Gaza?’ On one side, they sent out 30 closely-monitored ambulances into Gaza and on the other, ‘…holding up more than 25 trucks and SUVs filled with medical supplies donated by Greece, Turkey, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.’ I believe that Egypt’s aid to Gaza is more political than humanitarian; they are really focused on the political gains in the Israeli-Gaza crisis than actual assistance to the victims.
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