Related Post
Dozens of demonstrators gathered yesterday, Sunday, in front of the headquarters of the Journalists Syndicate in Cairo to express their opposition to the passage of an Israeli military ship through the Suez Canal, as well as reports last week of the docking of a ship carrying military materials for Israel in the port of Alexandria.
The demonstrators chanted slogans against allowing the two ships to cross, and they also called on the Egyptian authorities to release the detainees in solidarity protests with the Palestinians who have been living for more than a year in the wake of the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
The docking of this ship in the port of Alexandria, on its way to Israel, carrying highly explosive materials for manufacturing bombs, raised condemnation and astonishment on the social networking site, and questions about the reasons for the Egyptian authorities allowing it to dock in its port.
According to a report issued by Amnesty International, the German commercial cargo ship “Catherine”, flying the Portuguese flag, was carrying 8 containers filled with “RDX hexogen”, which is used in bomb manufacturing, which is more powerful and lethal than the famous “TNT”. .
According to international navigation monitoring sites, the ship set off on May 21 from the port of Haiphong in Vietnam, and chose the route of the Cape of Good Hope instead of Bab al-Mandab. Several countries refused to dock it at their ports because of its cargo of explosives destined for Israel.
The docking of the ship in the port of Alexandria on October 28 sparked widespread controversy on social media about the possibility of Egypt helping Israel in its war on Gaza, which prompted the Egyptian military spokesman to categorically deny these allegations, stressing that there was no form of cooperation with Egypt. Israel.
In a later statement, the Egyptian Ministry of Transport explained that allowing the ship to dock at the port of Alexandria was to unload a shipment belonging to the Ministry of Military Production, noting that the ship had submitted an official request to leave the port, heading to the port of Haydar Pasha in Türkiye to complete its route.
