http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/01/09/galloway-deported-from-cairo/

This is the continuation of the Viva Palestina report on the outrageous arrest and subsequent treatment of a British MP.

……..The incident began after George Galloway and his colleague Ron McKay arrived at the Rafah crossing from Gaza to Egypt.

As soon as they emerged onto Egyptian soil both Men were forcibly pushed into a van, refused exit and told that they were leaving the country. They were then driven off in a police convoy. Viva Palestina convoy of 550 people from 17 countries was attacked by Egyptian riot police and plane clothes intelligence officers in the early hours of Wednesday (6th January). 55 of the convoy members were injured and 7 were also arrested.

However Galloway and Turkish MP’s struck a deal with Egyptian authorities, part of this deal was that the 7 detainees were released without charge.

On the enforced drive to Cairo, news came through of the imminent arrest of the 7 but when Galloway demanded to return to Rafah, permission was repeatedly denied.

….http://www.vivapalestina.org/home.htm

BBC website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8447410.stm
Page last updated at 09:19 GMT, Friday, 8 January 2010

Three Palestinians killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza

Crater left by an Israeli strike on what Palestinian describes as a metal workshop

Three people, including a 14-year-old-boy, have been killed in Israeli air strikes overnight in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics say.

The Israeli military said it was responding to mortar and rocket attacks on Thursday on Israel from Gaza.

It said it attacked two tunnels on the border with Egypt, a tunnel to be used by militants for crossing into Israel and a weapons making site.

The strikes hit targets Gaza City, Khan Younis and Rafah.

The militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza, said an Israeli jet had also bombed a building in Gaza City.

On Thursday, Israeli planes dropped thousands of leaflets over the Gaza Strip warning residents to steer clear of the border after Palestinian militants fired mortar rounds into Israel.

Gaza militants have fired more than 280 rockets or mortars at Israel since the end of a devastating offensive against the territory on January 18, according to the Israeli military.

Palestinian groups and human right organisations say about about 1,400 Palestinians died during the offensive. Thirteen Israelis were also dies in the fighting.
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Sent: Friday, 8 January, 2010 9:37:19
Subject: Re: Convoy

Press Release
Friday 8th January

BRITISH MP GEORGE GALLOWAY in CAIRO ‘Deportation’

British MP George Galloway was officially deported from Cairo today (Friday), when Egyptian uniformed plane clothes police officers bundled him onto a London plane. Galloway had been trying to return to Rafah after news broke that seven of the Viva Palestina convoy members were said to be arrested.

Police – who at one point were numbered at 25 mainly plain clothes officers, refused him to return.

Several officers even followed Galloway to the toilet, rest room and a BA lounge.

Picture below is of one officer, presumed to be from Mukhabarat which was taken outside the BA lounge airside.
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But they are making up for the past in spades and I can only say BRAVO to the French.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10993.shtml
Gaza Freedom March: detained at the US embassy
Ali Abunimah writing from Cairo, Live from Palestine, 7 January 2010

The author was born of Palestinian parents in America and lives in Chicago.

This humanitarian activity, confronted by the Egyptian and Israeli authorities, deserves the full support of the international community, which should call for implementation of international law in this tragic conflict.