Hundreds of Libyan protesters protested Saturday afternoon before the headquarters of the Egypt Embassy in the capital Libya, Tripoli, to demand the opening of Rafah’s border crossing to be able to send humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to EFE.
The protesters, who repeated slogans in favor of the Palestinian resistance and affirmed the support of the Libyans to the cause of the Palestinian people, withdrew the Egyptian flag of the diplomatic headquarters and put instead of Palestine.
Meanwhile, the police members of the National Unity Government (GUN) controlling the west of the divided country were retreating to avoid clashes with protesters.
This morning, dozens of humanitarian aid trucks crossed Rafah’s Egyptian border to the Gaza Strip, but first passing through Israeli territory for inspection, official Egyptian official sources said Egyptian and found Efe, on a day in which Israel has announced a “tactical pause.”
Yesterday, Libyan protesters installed tents at the headquarters of the diplomatic representation of Egypt in Libya and threatened to keep the seated until the Egyptian authorities respond to their demand, local media reported.
Last Wednesday, the Libyan Prime Minister of the GUN, Abdelhamid Dbeiba, condemned “the crimes of hunger and continuous aggression” against the Palestinian people before the main advisor of the US president, Donald Trump, for affairs of the Middle East, Arabs and Africans, Massad Bouleos, visiting Libya.
