US EditionLargest flotilla for Gaza hopes to pressure Israel to end blockade
Over 50 ships from 44 nations will attempt to deliver aid and break a 15-year Israeli naval blockade amid ongoing conflict causing famine and thousands of deaths in Gaza.
- The Global Sumud Flotilla, the largest civilian maritime mission yet, is departing from multiple Mediterranean ports to deliver aid to Gaza under Israeli naval blockade.
- The flotilla seeks to challenge Israel’s 15-year naval blockade of Gaza, which was established following Hamas’s rise to power in the territory in 2007, amid ongoing hostilities that escalated after Hamas attacks in October 2023.
- Participants include hundreds of activists from 44 countries, including Greta Thunberg and Mariana Mortagua, carrying food, medicine, and baby formula for Gaza’s starving population.
- Israel has consistently thwarted aid attempts, notably killing nine activists aboard the MV Mavi Marmara in 2010 and seizing a yacht carrying Thunberg in June, while dismissing flotillas as Hamas propaganda.
- Although the flotilla raises global awareness, experts say breaking the siege requires broader political action as the blockade and related violence have led to over 63,000 Palestinian deaths and a declared famine.
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Gaza City residents, many displaced by war multiple times, now face the twin threats of combat and hunger. An activist flotilla left Barcelona on Monday – the largest attempt yet to symbolically break Israel's blockade of Gaza.
Not only at sea. The attempts to block the ships that in recent years have tried to reach Gaza often begin even before the departure, when the means are stopped in the ports. How? "The sabotages are very common" , tells Ilfattoquotidiano.it Maria Elena Delia , the Italian spokesman of the Global Sumud Flotilla , that just today sails back to the Strip. And the attempts of damage are of two types: "Burocratic and physical" , not only emergency de…
Dozens of boats will be at the start from Sunday. The Belgian lawyer Alexis Deswaef, who will be aboard one of them, thinks that the action can succeed given its magnitude. ...
The "Global Sumud Flotilla" simmers from several countries, taking over from "Conscience", "Madleen" and "Handala".
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