On the eve of the potential arrival of the breathless caravan at the Gaza border, Israel increases their tone and deploys its military forces in the face of what it calls “jihadist threat”.
The Israeli Minister of National Security has not chewed his words. In an alarmist speech, he enjoined the Israeli army to prevent any attempt to infiltrate Pro-Palestinian activists from Egypt towards the Gaza Strip, qualifying the participants of the Stream Caravan as “jihadist demonstrators”.
“They constitute a threat to the Egyptian regime itself, as well as for all moderate regimes in the region,” he said.
This speech is accompanied military deployments Additional on the outskirts of the Egyptian border, in the southern area of Israel. A clear way for Tel Aviv to say that no popular pressure or cross-border activism will be tolerated.
In parallel, Egypt published a diplomatic press release in which it reaffirms its commitment to the Palestinian cause and denounces the Israeli aggression against Gaza. But above all, Cairo recalls that any attempt to access the border region, in particular Al-Arich and the position of Rafah, must be the subject of a prior request via the official diplomatic channels.
Although the breathless caravan is never named, the message is clear: no militant or non -institutional initiative will be authorized to cross the border, unless we respect a rigid – often dissuasive procedure.
