Hey folks, you may have heard that Medea was detained and beaten badly by the Egyptian authorities while trying to enter Egypt to go to Gaza with a larger international delegation of women. She was violently deported to Turkey, where she's now in the hospital until her flight back to the US on Wednesday. It's heartbreaking to think of the wonderful peacemaker we all love being harmed in any way! It's also scary to think about all the Egyptian activists (and journalists!!) who continue to languish in Egypt's prisons indefinitely for speaking out against the new government. Medea being barred from going to Gaza also reminds us that the Palestinians remained trapped in Gaza as long as the Egyptian Rafah border remains closed or tightly controlled.