Some news from people on the convoy via Twitter
“i was coming back from dinner with 8 brothers and sisters.
approximetly 30 riot police approached us & started
harassing pushing and hitting us. the situation escalated. we tried to
lock arms and hold eachother and get to the gate. there were too many
of them.
two meters from the gate they separated us and beat the shit …out of us.
i got dragged under and into a group of the riot police and was
being beaten. managed to get to the wall. as i was being beaten one of
the brothers grabbed me from across the wall and put me into the
compound.
of the nine of us, four are missing i dont know what has happened to them.
there are other stories like this. do not know if anyone was
killed. they appear to be targetting middle-eastern looking people.
shame on you”. – @Peter2Gaza
“Our crew physically ok, sounded shaken. Started
whn Egypt said big vehicles & trucks had to b given to ISRAEL!
Galloway said no. Eg negotiator walked out. 5 mins later riot police
turned up. Trouble seemed 2 start wn plain clothed Egypt police in
compound started stirring things Thn riot police came in Mike &
others vouch …for this.
Galloway made a speech and calmed things down. Now everything is
quiet. Team have been using bandages etc from ambulance…. saw the
person stretchered off but doesn’t know more about this…. there is a
mosque in the port and that is where people are being treated” – @YorktoGaza
news from Mahathir’s niece. “All hell has broken lose at the port. Shit flying around and police spraying and gassing. We’re in the gates. Instigators
started moving in from within the police lines and moved on the inside
of the police side of the barricades. Convoy mbers were Sitting on the ground when shouts from polic…e lines started and then wham, hell. Just helped bandage a friend’s head. Some people are missing including a Msian student who came on his own from the UK. We are trying to find him. He may be arrested. For Gaza siege.
We have bend over backwards to come to Elarish cause EGY said we’d be
welcomed here, instead welcomed with violence” @juanajaafar