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Gaza Flotilla, Carrying Greta Thunberg, Enters High-Risk Zone, Says ‘Drone Activity Has Increased’
The flotilla, carrying over 500 activists on 40+ boats including Greta Thunberg, aims to break an 18-year Israeli blockade to deliver food and medicine to Gaza.
- On Wednesday, the Global Sumud Flotilla including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg entered the 'high-risk zone' near Gaza with reconnaissance drones reported overhead.
- Organisers say the mission aims to deliver food, medicine and other critical supplies to Gaza and to break the naval blockade amid widespread hunger, departing from Barcelona, Spain in the largest attempt in 18 years.
- The flotilla includes more than 40 civilian boats carrying over 500 people from 44 countries, with the Italian navy and Spanish navy escorting it and an Italian frigate stopping 150 nautical miles from Gaza.
- Israel warned it would prevent the flotilla from reaching Gaza and prepared 600 police officers and naval units, planning to move sailors to a warship and the Port of Ashdod.
- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pleaded with the flotilla to stop, warning it could derail the fragile US peace proposal, but GSF organisers rejected the compromise and said `the flotilla sails onwards`.
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"We have entered the high-risk zone, the area where previous missions have been attacked and/or intercepted," the Global Resilience Fleet says.
The Gaza convoy is approaching its destination. Israel's ambassador to Sweden says that everything will be done to prevent the ships from reaching Gaza. - Like every sovereign state,
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The Swedish activist rejects Israel's "desperate lies" about the origin of ships with humanitarian aid: "We are neither Hamas couriers nor terrorists"
·Spain
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