The Gaza bound flotilla, 'The Handala.' (X Screenshot)
The ship departed from Syracuse, Italy, this morning carrying 18 volunteers including medics, lawyers, journalists, and humanitarian supplies toward Gaza’s heavily patrolled waters.
Less than a month after Israeli forces lawfully stopped one flotilla ship carrying Greta Thunberg and other “activists” from undermining Gaza’s security blockade, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition launched another vessel Sunday to break into the Hamas-run territory.
The new vessel is named “Handala,” and will carry “life-saving humanitarian aid and a message of solidarity from people around the world refusing to stay silent as Gaza is starved, bombed and buried under rubble,” the coalition said in its statement.
“We are not governments. We are people, taking action where institutions have failed.”
The ship departed from Syracuse, Italy, this morning carrying 18 volunteers including medics, lawyers, journalists, and humanitarian supplies toward Gaza’s heavily patrolled waters.
This latest policity stunt comes just weeks after Israeli naval forces intercepted the coalition’s previous vessel, “Madleen,” in international waters on June 8.
Climate activist Greta Thunberg was among the 12 aboard when Israeli commandos boarded the ship and transported all passengers to Israel for processing before deportation.
Israeli authorities had warned Greta and her crew that any attempt to breach Gaza’s maritime security zone would be met with interception.
Following established protocols, Israeli naval forces boarded the vessel after it ignored instructions to turn back, detaining passengers who included a Member of the European Parliament, journalists, and human rights advocates.
However, the coalition maintains its fictitious position that Israeli forces “illegally seized” the ship in international waters, claiming the twelve civilians were “abducted by commandos, taken against their will to Israel, and were interrogated and abused before they were deported.”
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