Indonesians protest against Egypt’s Gaza wall

Hundreds of Indonesian Muslims protested in Jakarta Sunday against an underground wall being built by Egypt along its border with the besieged Gaza Strip.

The demonstrators from the Voice of Palestine support group carried banners reading “Stop Building Steel Wall on Gaza” and chanted “Die America, Die Egypt” in front of the Egyptian embassy.

“We demand Egypt to remove the wall on humanitarian grounds. Erecting the wall will cause the Palestinians to suffer economically. Food supply will be affected,” the group’s coordinator, Hisyam Sulaiman, 42, told AFP.

Citing national security, Egypt is now building an underground iron wall in a bid to tighten its Sinai border with the besieged Gaza which has already been subject to a brutal Zionist war in late 2008 in which over 1400, mostaly civilians were killed.

The United States has voiced its support for the wall’s construction, according to AFP.