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Thousands of activists from all over the world are heading to the Gaza Strip to try to break Israel's suffocating siege and attract the international attention to the genocide it performs there.
Approximately 1,000 people participating in the Tunisius -led section of the global hike to Gaza, known as the Sumud convoy, arrived in Libya on Tuesday morning, a day after they left the capital of Tunisia, Tunisia. They are now resting in Libya after a whole day of travel, but they still do not permit to cross the eastern part of the North African country.
The group, which consists most of Maghreb citizens, the Northwestern African region, is expected to grow as people join the countries he goes through as he paves the way to the passage of Rafa between Egypt and Gaza.
How will they do it? When will they get there? What is it about?
Here's all you need to know:
Who participates?
The coordination of joint actions for Palestine is the leading convoy Sumud, which is bound by the global march to Palestine.
There are a total of about 1,000 people traveling to a nine -lump convoy in order to take Gaza's action.
Sumud is supported by the Tunisian General Labor Union, the National Bar Association, the Tunisian League for Human Rights and the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights.
It is coordinated with activists and persons from 50 countries flying in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on June 12, so that everyone can march together to Rafa.
Some of these activists are associated with an umbrella by local organizations, including the Palestinian Youth Movement, encoding women for peace in the United States and a Jewish Work Voice in the United Kingdom.
How will they get to the crossing of Rafa?
The convoy of cars and buses reached Libya. After a short break died, the plan is to continue to Cairo.
“Most people around me are courage and anger (for what is happening in Gaza),” says Gaya Ben Mabarek, an independent Tunisian journalist who joined the hike just before the convoy moved to Libya.
Ben Mbarek is led by the conviction that as a journalist she should “stand on the right side of history, stopping genocide and stopping people from starving.”
After Sumud contacts his fellow activists in Cairo, they will head to El Arish in the Sinai Sinai Peninsula in Egypt and then set off on a three -day hike to crossing Rafa to Gaza.
Will they encounter activists?
The convoy has not yet been authorized to cross Eastern Libya from the region's authorities. Libya has two rival administrations, and although the convoy is welcomed to the West, the discussions still continue with the authorities in the east, before Tuesday, an employee of the convoy of Al Jazeera.
The activists have told the Associated Press agency that they do not expect to be released in Gaza, but they still hope that their journey will put pressure on world leaders to force Israel to end their genocidal war.
Another concern lies in Egypt, which classifies the section between El Arish and Rafa's border checkpoint as a war zone and does not allow anyone to enter, unless he lives there.
The Egyptian government did not state whether it would allow the global March to cross its territory.
“I doubt they will be allowed to go to Rafa,” said a longtime Egyptian activist, whose name lingers for their safety.
“It's always national security first,” Al Jazeera told Al Jazee.
If the convoy reaches Rafa, he will have to face the Israeli army at the intersection.
Why did activists choose this approach?
Palestine's supporters have tried everything over the years when Gaza suffered.
As Israel's genocidal war began 20 months ago, civilians protested in the big capitals and took legal action against the selected employees to subjugate Israel's mass murder in Gaza.
Activists sail to several humanitarian aid boats for Gaza, trying to break the suffocating blockade that Israel has imposed since 2007; They were all attacked or captured by Israel.
In 2010, in international waters, Israeli commandos boarded the Mavi Marmara, one of the six boats in the sailing of the Freedom Flotel. They killed nine people, and another person died from his wounds later.
The fleet of freedom continued to try as Gaza suffered an Israeli attack after another.
Israel's present war against Gaza prompted 12 activists from the Freedom Flotilla coalition In order to sail aboard Madeline from Italy on June 1, hoping to put pressure on the world's governments to stop Israel's genocide.
However, activists were abducted by Israeli forces in international waters on June 9th.
Will the global march to Gaza succeed?
Activists will try, even if they are sure they will not go into gas.
It is said that standing inactive will allow Israel to continue its genocide until the gas people are dead or ethnically cleaned.
“The message that people here want to send to the world is that even if you stop us by sea or air, then we will come, from thousands, by land,” said Ben Mbarek.
“We will literally cross the deserts … Let's stop people from starving,” she told Al Jazeera.
How bad are things in gas?
Ever since Israel began his war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, he strangled the food and provisions entering the Palestinian enclave, an engineering hunger who probably killed thousands and could kill hundreds of thousands more.
Israel has a carpet gas, killing at least 54,927 people and wounds over 126,000.
Legal scientists Early said Al Jazeera The suffering in Gaza suggests that Israel deliberately inflicts conditions to lead to the physical destruction of the Palestinian people in whole or in part – the exact definition of the genocide.
Global outrage has grown as Israel continues to kill civilians in thousands, including children, auxiliary workers, medics and journalists.
Since March, Israel has tightened its gas throttle, completely stopping the help and then shooting people who are arranged for the little help, which allows, leading to rare statements of condemnation by Western governments.
