529 nautical miles (980 kilometers) separate the 47 vessels that make up the Global Sumud Flotillacurrently stranded on the island of Crete, of the Gaza Strip. Since his departure from Barcelona on August 31, the mission has been the victim of technical breakdowns, drone buzzs and attacks of these in the outskirts or covers of about twenty vessels. At this time, they have already made two thirds of the trip and it seems that the idea is to reach the Palestinian enclave in less than a week with the declared objective of “break the Israeli blockade“and” open a humanitarian corridor. “The group will have the help of a Spanish ship and others Italian In case of attack. The Spanish Navy Ship Furor has left midnight from Thursday to Friday from the port of Cartagena, and it is planned to arrive between Friday night and Saturday morning to the area where the flotilla is located. The army has informed the vessels that the ship will remain at a prudential distance from between 12 y 24 miles.
TOUR AND POSITION OF THE GLOBAL SUMUD GAZ / The newspaper
He Familythe mission ringleader that leads to personalities such as There is colaualso stranded in Greek territorial waters, it has had to abort the mission due to a technical breakdown that the engineers of the flotilla themselves have considered irreparable. In addition to the former mayor of Barcelona, the ship houses the direction of the “greater humanitarian mission”, such as Saif Abukeshek or Thiago Ávila. All of them will be relocated in other vessels.
Between rescue and protection
There are many doubts about the role that the three military ships will develop. Especially in the tesiture that the Israeli army made an attack similar to that suffered by two of the boats while they were anchored in the port of Tunisia, on September 7. Or this Wednesday, when, according to the organization, there were 13 explosions around several ships, the more than more than 15 drones of low altitude they fly over the Alma shipanother of the main ones of the Global Sumud Flotilla.
The Spanish contribution is defined as “a maritime action ship equipped with all means to be necessary to attend the flotilla or perform a ransom “, to words of the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchezfrom New York. As far as Italiahe Minister of Defpen Guido Crosetto He declared that under no intention he wanted to “declare war on a friendly country”, referring to Israel, adding that his goal is that “nobody is injured” and that “aids come to Gaza.” Both statements are channeled along the same lines: under the risk of azuzar hostilities, it seems highly unlikely that Space e Italia respond to an Israeli attack similar to those already registered.
For its part, the Global Sumud Flotilla He said Thursday, based on “intelligence information”, which is “likely” that Israel intensifies “violent attacks against the flotilla in the next 48 hours, potentially using weapons that could sink ships, hurt and/or kill participants.” The organization has made international calls to governments and organizations to “guarantee the safe step” of the mission.
An uncertain answer
In response to the announcements of Spain and Italy, Tel Aviv was “quite sure” yesterday that ships in support of the fifty foros “will not be needed.” “We have no problem with the fact that there are ships around. They were or sent to be at a certain distance,” said the General Director of the Foreign Ministry, Eden Bar TalIn addition to adding that the Israeli Navy would do “the maximum to protect the safety of passengers.” He Israeli executive He has urged in recent days to download aid in other countries (such as Greece or Cyprus) while the famine declared by the UN continues to ravage Gaza.
In addition, the precedent can encourage fear: in 2010the Turkish Mavi Marmana ship was assaulted and 10 of its members were killed by Israeli commands, triggering an unprecedented diplomatic crisis between Türkiye and Israel. In addition, Binyamín Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, together with their closest dome have made incendiary statements, defining the GSF as the “Hamas Flot” and qualifying organizers as organizers as Abukeshek of “Hamas operations“.
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