Flotila vessels with humanitarian aid and activists on board, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg plans to sail from Barcelona on Sunday to try to “break the illegal blockade of Gaza”the organizers said. TASR informs according to AFP report.
Vessels sail from this Spanish port city to “They opened a humanitarian corridor and ended the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people”, The global fleet was stated without refining the number of ships or the time of their departure. The fleet is expected to arrive in the war -tossed coastal Palestinian enclave in mid -September.
„This will be the biggest mission of solidarity in history, with a larger number of people and vessels than all previous attempts together, ” Last week, Brazilian activist Thiago Avila introduced journalists in Barcelona. The organizers say that dozens of other ships should also leave Tunisian and other Mediterranean ports on September 4.
Activists also plan to organize simultaneous demonstrations and other protests in 44 countries “to a sign of solidarity with the Palestinian people”, She wrote Thunberg, part of the Fleet Managing Committee on Instagram. Except for Thunberg Activists from several countries, European legislators and publicly known personalities, will be found on the fleet vessels, such as former mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau.
The global fleet sumud itself describes as an independent group that is not connected to any government or political partywrites AFP. Sumud in Arabic means “perseverance”.
Already in June and July, Israel blocked two attempts by activists to deliver humanitarian aid by boat to Gaza. The humanitarian situation in this Palestinian enclave has worsened dramatically in recent weeksit reminds the French agency. This month, the United Nations declared the state of famine in this area and warned that 500,000 people face the “catastrophic” conditions.
Thunberg herself faced in connection with her participation in this humanitarian fleet allegations of anti -Semitism, writes Reuters. “It is not anti-Semitic to claim that we should not bomb people, that it should not live in the occupation, that everyone should have the right to live in freedom and dignity, no matter who she is,” said a 22-year-old Swedish activist in response to these allegations.