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What is the Global March to Gaza all about?

A child holds a Palestinian flag, as participants of a Tunisian-led land convoy aiming to reach Gaza gather before they board buses, in Tunis, Tunisia June 9, 2025 [Jihed Abidellaoui/Reuters]

Thousands of activists from across the globe are marching to the Gaza Strip to try to break Israel’s suffocating siege and draw international attention to the genocide it is perpetrating there.

Approximately 1,000 people participating in the Tunisian-led stretch of the Global March to Gaza, known as the Sumud Convoy, arrived in Libya on Tuesday morning, a day after they departed the Tunisian capital, Tunis. They are now resting in Libya after a full day of travel, but do not yet have permission to cross the eastern part of the North African country.

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