There is going to be a protest levied against the Egyptian government at their embassy in Pretoria (28 April, 13:30 SAST), organized by various activists, media outlets and humanitarian groups in South Africa. Bus services have also been provided to take protesters from throughout Soweto and Johannesburg to Pretoria. The nature of the protests is to demand the Egyptian military to forcibly reopen the Rafah Crossing to reallow the delivery of aid which has been left to rot for the past 2 months and allow medical refugees to escape the Strip, alongside others who so may decide to.
Some of Egypt’s crimes that were highlighted include the crackdown and arrests of pro-Palestinian protesters following the Western-backed coup that overthrew the democratic election of Mohamed Morsi, with the Sisi regime as the incumbent successor, trafficking by often demanding refugees from Gaza pay as much as R100k ZAR (or R50k ZAR for children) for each to be allowed entry to Egypt (There is an instance of even a Palestinian-South African citizen having their passport seized and being imprisoned without charge for over 1.5 years - Egypt won’t allow them to return to South Africa because of the lack of passport that they disposed of and don’t consider a South African ID valid enough to fly back into Johannesburg), Egypt and ISISrael have also destroyed many of the cross-border tunnels used to smuggle in good, most importantly food. This also at a time when WFP and other aid groups have alarmed that there is literally no food left in their stocks and aid workers continue to be targeted in bombings. Organizations such as Africa Muslims Agency and Gift of the Givers may even have to face a bitter reality that none of their workers will be able to return to South Africa.
Rafah as a city also no longer exists. The former city has been annihilated in totality, all of it’s former 700,000 residents have been ethnically cleansed and all 70km2 of it is under a kill-on-sight order. The entire Gaza Strip has been squeezed down to 100km2, with plans for squeeze down the area further to convert al-Mawasi into an actual concentration camp.
Infinite death to ameriKKKa and death to piSSrael
Prior to the WFP’s announcement of suspending services in Gaza due to all of their food having been depleted, the amounts were rationed to a quarter of what was originally intended and even that provided supplies for only a million people. There are also over 3,000 aid trucks sitting outside Rafah, with tens of millions of kilograms of food already rotting. This was one of many points brought up during the “Open Rafah Now” demonstrations outside the Egyptian embassy in Pretoria earlier today.
A full video that was livestreamed by Salaamedia will be posted for archival/preservation purposes on TankieTube later (assuming YouTube doesn’t vaporize the saved broadcast before I get home from work).
We the people of Johannesburg do not merely just stand with or support Hamas; We are Hamas
Death to ameriKKKa, Death to isnotreal