Anti-Israel protesters disrupted a flight en route from Egypt to Minnesota in the United States.
By Rachel Avraham
According to a recent report published by Israel Hayom, anti-Israel protesters disrupted a flight flying from Egypt to Minnesota by “standing in aircraft aisles, clapping, chanting, and displaying Palestinian flags while repeatedly ignoring flight attendant instructions to stop their behavior. Fellow passengers documented the mid-air demonstration that prevented crew members from conducting normal flight operations.”
“They started singing chants while flight attendants repeatedly requested they cease,” a Twitter user reported. “These individuals are insufferable.” The independent European news account Visegrád 24 stated, “They were removed from Egypt and created a disturbance on their return flight to the United States. They disregarded flight attendants who instructed them to stop singing about Palestine aboard the aircraft.”
An Israeli social media user commented, “They proceeded to harass flight attendants who repeatedly asked them to take their seats. Every ‘Free Palestine’ movement deserves placement on the no-fly list.”
This comes after a few weeks ago, the Times of Israel reported that the “Egyptian authorities have detained more than 200 anti-Israel activists in Cairo ahead of an international march with the stated aim of breaking the blockade on Gaza. As part of the Global March to Gaza, thousands of activists planned to travel to Egypt’s Rafah border crossing with the Palestinian enclave.” This attempt was met with the Egyptians waging massive arrests and a series of interrogations.
The march’s spokesperson Saif Abukeshek told AFP: “Over 200 participants were detained at Cairo airport or questioned at hotels across Cairo.” He added that those detained included nationals from the United States, Australia, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Morocco and Algeria. “After interrogations, some were arrested and others were released,” he added.
The Global March to Gaza was supposed to include 4,000 participants who were set to travel by bus to the city of El-Arish in the heavily securitized Sinai Peninsula before walking 50 kilometers (30 miles) toward the border with Gaza, the Times of Israel reported. According to the report, they were supposed to camp out there a number of days before returning to Cairo. But after more than 200 people were detained in Cairo, the organizers canceled the Global March to Gaza.
According to various Arabic language reports, more recently, the Supreme State Security Prosecution in Egypt has ordered for six Egyptians to be detained for 15 days after they were questioned over their support for the Global March to Gaza. According to the report, since the October 7th massacre, the Egyptians have detained hundreds of Egyptians who sought to engage in anti-Israel activity. For this reason likely, the anti-Israel protesters targeted the flight that departed from Egypt.
