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Thousands of activists from around the world go to the Gaza Strip to try to break the suffocating siege of Israel and attracts international attention to the genocide it perpetuates.
About 1,000 people participating in the section led by Tunisian world march in Gaza, known as the convoy of Sumud, arrived in Libya on Tuesday morning, one day after their departure from the Tunisian capital, Tunis. They are now resting in Libya after a full day of travel, but do not yet have permission to cross the eastern part of the North African country.
The group, which mainly includes the citizens of the Maghreb, the Northwest African region, should develop while people join countries it passes as it goes towards the crossing of Rafah between Egypt and Gaza.
How will they do it? When will they get there? What is it?
Here is everything you need to know:
Who is involved?
The coordination of joint action for Palestine conducts the convoy of Sumud, which is linked to the world march for Palestine.
In total, there are around 1,000 people, traveling on a convoy of nine buses, in order to put pressure on world leaders to take measures in Gaza.
Sumud is supported by Tunisian General Labor Union, the National Bar Association, the Tunisian League for Human Rights and the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights.
He coordinated with the activists and individuals of 50 countries who fly in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on June 12, so that they can all walk together in Rafah.
Some of these activists are affiliated with an umbrella of local organizations, including the Palestinian Youth Movement, Codepink Women for Peace in the United States and the Jewish voice for work in the United Kingdom.
How will they reach the Rafah crossing?
The convoy of cars and buses has reached Libya. After taking a brief rest, the plan is to continue towards Cairo.
“Most people around me feel courage and anger [about what’s happening in Gaza]”Said Ghaya Ben Mbarek, an independent Tunisian journalist who joined the march just before the convoy launched in Libya.
Ben Mbarek is motivated by conviction that as a journalist, she must “stand on the right side of history by stopping a genocide and preventing people from starving”.
Once Sumud connects with his militant colleagues in Cairo, they will go to El Arish in the Sinai peninsula in Egypt, then launch into a three -day walk for the crossing of Rafah in Gaza.
Will activists face obstacles?
The convoy has not yet received authorization to go through eastern Libya from the authorities of the region. Libya has two rival administrations, and although the convoy has been welcomed in the West, discussions are still underway with the Eastern authorities, an official of the convoy in Al Jazeera said on Tuesday.
Activists had previously declared to the Associated Press news agency that they did not expect to be authorized in Gaza, but they hope that their trip will put pressure on world leaders to force Israel to end his genocidal war.
Another concern lies in Egypt, which classifies the section between El Arish and the border crossing of Rafah as a military zone and does not allow anyone to enter unless they live there.
The Egyptian government has not published a declaration to find out if it will allow the World Marche to go to Gaza to go through its territory.
“I doubt that they would be allowed to walk towards Rafah,” said a long -standing Egyptian activist, whose name is retained for their security.
“It is always national security first,” they told Al Jazeera.
If the convoy goes to Rafah, he will have to face the Israeli army at the crossing.
Why did the activists choose this approach?
Supporters of Palestine have tried everything over the years as Gaza has suffered.
Since the genocidal war of Israel began 20 months ago, civilians protested in the big capitals and brought legal action against elected officials for encouraging the mass murder campaign of Israel in Gaza.
Activists have sailed on several humanitarian rescue boats to Gaza, trying to break a stifling blockade that Israel has imposed since 2007; All were attacked or intercepted by Israel.
In 2010, in international waters, Israeli commandos rose aboard Mavi Marmara, one of the six boats of the Freedom Flatilla by sailing for Gaza. They killed nine people and another person died of his injuries later.
Flotilla Freedom continued to try while Gaza underwent an Israeli assault after the other.
The current War of Israel against Gaza prompted 12 militants of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition To set up the Madleen of Italy on June 1, hoping to put pressure on world governments to stop the genocide of Israel.
However, activists were removed by Israeli forces in international waters on June 9.
Will the world march towards Gaza succeed?
Activists will try, even if they are almost sure that they will not enter Gaza.
They say that the idle will only allow Israel will allow Israel to continue its genocide until the inhabitants of Gaza are all dead or ethnically cleaned.
“The message that people here want to send to the world is that even if you stop us at sea or in the air, so we will come, on the thousands, on the ground,” said Ben Mbarek.
“We will literally cross deserts … to prevent people from starving,” she told Al Jazeera.
What is the severity of things in Gaza?
Since Israel began his war in Gaza on October 7, 2023, he strangled the food and supplies entering the Palestinian enclave, designing a famine that probably killed thousands and could kill hundreds of thousands of people.
Israel bombed Gaza, killing at least 54,927 people and injuring more than 126,000.
Legal researchers Previously said to Al Jazeera Suffering in Gaza suggests that Israel deliberately inflicts conditions to provoke the physical destruction of the Palestinian people in whole or in part – the precise definition of genocide.
World indignation has grown up while Israel continues to kill civilians by thousands, including children, humanitarian workers, doctors and journalists.
Since March, Israel has tightened its suffocation on Gaza, completely stopping aid, then pulling on people queuing for the little help it allows, leading to rare declarations of condemnation of Western governments.
