North African ‘Resilience Convoy’ heads to Gaza, aiming to break Israel’s siege

Pars Today A grassroots land convoy is travelling thousands of kilometres from the Tunisian capital to Gaza on Monday, in the hopes of breaking Israel’s debilitating 18-year siege on the war-battered Palestinian enclave.
Thousands of volunteers from Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia left the Tunisian capital in a 100-vehicle convoy to raise international awareness of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and deliver life-saving aid, organizers said.
The United Nations has described Gaza as the “hungriest place on Earth”, with nearly half a million people in a catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death. 
“The convoy will express solidarity with the Palestinian people under siege and deliver humanitarian aid to them,” the coordination group said in a statement.
“Participants in the convoy will head to the Ras Jedir Crossing on the Tunisian-Libyan border, and travel along the Libyan coastal road to Cairo, then to the Rafah Crossing on the Egyptian-Palestinian border, to deliver messages of solidarity and aid to the Palestinians in Gaza,” it added.
The “Soumoud” convoy, which means resilience and steadfastness in Arabic, is reported to include trade union and political figures, as well as human rights activists, athletes, lawyers, doctors, journalists, and members of youth organizations. (IRIB news agency)
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