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Brian Lenzo, Ralph Bean and Tom Middleton, who is traveling with the Viva Palestina convoy to Gaza, report on an apparent crackdown by Egyptian authorities.

EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES have attacked a convoy carrying humanitarian relief supplies destined for the people of Gaza.

Information was difficult to obtain, but members of the Viva Palestina convoy managed to report that they were facing a force of more than 2,000 riot police in the Egyptian port city of El Arish, and that numerous participants were detained and suffered injuries in the clashes.

At midday on Tuesday, Viva Palestina convoy leader Kevin Ovenden issued an alert saying that the group's "situation is now at a crisis point." Ovenden wrote that Viva participants had been negotiating with a senior official from Cairo about taking the convoy's aid and vehicles into Gaza through the Egyptian border crossing at Rafah.

Ovenden reported that the official they were negotiating with left, and the convoy was confronted with more than 2,000 riot ...