More than 40 Canadians planning to participate in the global march to Gaza, alongside thousands of other foreign activists, have been detained in Egypt and had their passports confiscated by authorities, organizers told CBC News.
A group of 83 Canadians arrived in Cairo on Wednesday and Thursday, ahead of the scheduled march to Egypt’s border with Gaza, an attempt to draw attention to the deepening humanitarian crises facing Palestinians under Israel’s blockade of the war-torn territory more than 20 months after attacks began.
SOS – the #MarchtoGaza is at Ismailiya checkpoint in Egypt and security started attacking shortly after this #FreePalestine chant. (Source is a DiEM25 comrade on the ground.) pic.twitter.com/JDHj8z2RNp
— Judith Meyer (@GermanPolyglot) June 13, 2025
@yipengge update on the March to Gaza:
“I am safely back in Cairo now and staying with a friend. But they are mass deporting people from Ismailia and checkpoint one.
My friends have been abducted and put on buses to the airport for deportation, and passport still being held” https://t.co/gqwmWWtikQ pic.twitter.com/LQCAOgqg8A
— Rachel Gilmore (@atRachelGilmore) June 13, 2025
Meanwhile in Egypt, local Egyptians are fighting with pro-Hamas useful idiots from the West who were trying to march to Gaza and ‘break the siege’.pic.twitter.com/vZVyArcdFK
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) June 13, 2025
h/t Miss Trixie and Patti Jo
