An estimated Twenty-seven ships to set sail for Gaza from multiple ports to break Israel’s siege on the enclave.
This will be activist Greta Thunberg’s second mission, having been taken captive by Israel earlier this year when her ship and fellow crew members were sprayed with illicit chemicals and boarded unlawfully in international waters. The Handala and her crew also suffered a similar fate earlier this summer.
Dozens of people gathered on Saturday at the port of Barcelona where a flotilla will set sail for Gaza on Sunday. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is hoping to break… the naval blockade imposed by Israel along the coast of the Gaza Strip since 2007… (AP video and production by Hernan Munoz)
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I hope it goes better for them this time.
It won’t. But they know that; and they know the risks. On the contrary, they know it will likely be worse than last time.
Short of Yemen (Barak Allah) these are the only direct actions to stop the blockaid on Gaza. An entire world watching as a live streamed genocide occurs.
Yemen and these flotillas will be written about in history as historians analyze why so little was done to stop a genocide.
History is written by the victors, but i hope you’re right.
the digital age is throwing a wrench in these well established ideas, it’s extremely easy to disseminate information, and i imagine it will be even easier, even if they won’t learn about things in the school
It’s also easy to disseminate disinformation.
The western Imperialist empire will fall. We won’t live to see what is built from the ashes of it though. But I have faith long term that the third world will be liberated and the history of class struggle will be written.
Palestine may not be free today. But it’s people and their struggle have given strength to all oppressed people of the world. They and all people that support their struggle are an example of the good of humanity that will always exist to struggle for all people’s liberation.
I know. But I still hope.
They´re basically donating food and medicine to the IDF
Well if they make it into Gaza then the likelihood they survive decreases dramatically, but I hope their journey is as successful as it is noble
Why? You’re not implying Gazans mean them harm are you? I know more than one family that would lay down their lives to defend people like this. They’re not idiots. They absolutely understand the optics and global importance of this style of activism.
No lol once they are inside Israel borders that’s going to be an airstrike from the IDF for sure.
Edit oh next guy said already
I definitely understood their comment as “Israel claims everyone in Gaza as Hamas, so they’re more likely to die from a random airstrike than they are at sea”
israel wouldn’t resort to something so stupid. A more plausible move would be to deploy a sleeper cell to make the target disappear while shifting the blame onto hamas. the nova festival was moved last minute to try to win over gen z, but that didn’t work. they might try another staged event… just a theory.
I mean they had no problem killing non-palestinan reporters and aid workers so what makes you think they’ll care about Greta or any blowback. Greta is already demonized by right leaning news sources.
They have shot at Reuters and killed a guy, when they knew that they were known to them. They knew about that Reuters crew for days. Then they killed them.
Didn’t they already had a cover for how he was affiliated to Hamas?
LOL no it was completely made up. Everybody they shoot is hamas, regardless of if they have identified them or not.
Exactly but they did had a cover for them? do you think the same cover could work as well for Greta and the flotillas she’s part of?
Ok. I hope that’s the case. I don’t mean to be defensive. It just seems that’s often the implication with these kind of remarks.
Definitely the case, sorry for not being more clear
I’m hoping they can avoid the terror and death that Israel is wreaking on so many civilians and journalists
I reread it and I think I was just triggered and my brain skipped the whole picture. That was my mistake. I’m used to navigating more hostile online environments.
No worries 😊