Five ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla that departed this Monday afternoon from the Puerto de Barcelona They have had to return Due to a storm at sea in the early hours of Tuesday.
In a statement, the coalition explained that, due to the “Extreme weather conditions“, 5 of vessels They have had to return to the port of Barcelona for security reasons.
“When small civil vessels must do the work that governments have not done, sailing to break the siege and put an end to genocide, challenges like these are common,” they report from the Global Sumud Flotillaand add that all the crew are safe and that the mission continues.
Communications problems
One of the members of the flotilla, the Journalist Yusuf Omarexplained this Tuesday morning in an Instagram post that “many of the ships have lost radio and internet.”
In the images, in which the activist appears Thiago Ávilaone of the coordinators of this mission, looking through binoculars, Yusuf Omar adds that the only contact they have with some of the boats is visual: “It is not being a good start to the flotilla “.
Even so, from the coalition they are shown “firms“In their commitment to join the ships that will leave from Tunisia, Greece and Italy to bring humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
Second attempt
The flotilla left this Sunday from the moll of the Fush of Barcelona with some 300 personasamong which are the aSwedish Ctivist Greta Thunberg and the former mayor of Barcelona Ada Colaubut he had to return That same day by the bad navigation conditions.
After meeting on Monday morning, the organization finally decided to resume the expedition in the afternoon, after an improvement of weather conditions, and the twenty vessels began to leave progressively from 7.30 pm.
