Activists from around the world have returned home from Egypt after the Global March to Gaza ended. The activists were prevented by authorities from reaching Egypt’s Rafah border crossing where they hoped to break the siege on Gaza. Participants were subjected to attacks, arrests, and deportations as they made their journey through Egypt and Libya. Members of the Sumud Convoy, a North African humanitarian convoy, returned to Tunisia Thursday. This is Wael Naouar, one of the convoy’s organizers.

Wael Naouar: “Our convoy was stopped by force of arms, not by force of regulations or the law. Today we returned after being subjected to numerous violations and many restrictions. We didn’t reach Rafah, and we didn’t break the siege, but we felt that, emotionally and symbolically, we went far beyond Rafah, we reached the whole world.”