FLIGHT INTO EGYPT
At the invitation of Code Pink, Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire, and Ann Patterson, Peace People, agreed to join the Code Pink International Womens’ Delegation to Gaza, through the Egyptian Rafah crossing. The invitation had been extended by Womens’ Organizations in Gaza as they wished to celebrate International Womens Day, and draw attention to the ongoing Blockade of Gaza, by Israeli Government, which is now in its 8th year, and which is a policy causing a humanitarian crisis and deep pain and suffering for the people of Gaza, particularly children and women. Gaza, with a population of l.7 Palestinians, mostly youth, has been cut off from the rest of Palestine, as part of Israeli policy of dividing the Palestinian people. Its Port which has been closed for over 40 years,…