Participants of the Gaza Freedom March have issued a declaration calling for a global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. The so-called Cairo Declaration was written by a committee led by the South African delegation. Organizers of the march had originally planned for roughly 1,400 activists from forty-three countries to cross from Egypt into Gaza to break Israel’s siege. But the march plans were altered when the Egyptian government blocked most of the marchers from crossing the border.