Gaza City - Some 86 international activists began touring the Gaza Strip Thursday, in an expression of solidarity with Palestinians living there under the Israeli blockade. Their visit, which coincides with one year since Israel's offensive against militants in the Strip, will see them meet with officials from the Islamist Hamas movement, which administers the salien.
They will also tour areas hit in the Israeli bombardments, visit Shifa hospital, and meet with community leaders, Hamdi Shaath, the head of the pro-Hamas Committee to Defeat the Blockade, said.
The 86, part of a much large group of 1,300 activists, arrived in the Strip on Wednesday night, after spending several days in Cairo waiting for Egyptian authorities to allow them to cross into the enclave via the Rafah crossing point.
Tighe Berry, the spokesman of the group, said Hedy Epstein, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor, had remained behind in Cairo.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/301605,international-activists-tour-gaza-strip.html.
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