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Activists prepare to defy Israeli naval blockade of Gaza

2024-08-17

They’ve been preparing since April, as they’ve done regularly since the first one in 2010.

[ARABNEWS] Peace activists from several countries are setting out on a converted trawler to defy an Israeli blockade and deliver humanitarian aid

to Paleostinians in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

"The purpose of this mission is to send a message that civil society is not OK with what’s happening in Gaza," said Fellipe Lopes, the Portuguese media coordinator of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition

…a project of the Turkish IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, a semi-official "charity" branch of the Erdogan government that links the government, the Turkish branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, and pet jihadi groups like ISIS in Syria, among others. IHH puts together a Freedom Flotilla every few years. Except for the first one, which was raided by the IDF on the high seas, the rest have not made it across the Mediterranean, as I recall...

on board the ship Handala during a stopover in Malta.

It will be a trip fraught with danger. Another coalition ship on a similar mission to Gaza in 2010 was stopped and boarded by Israeli troops, and nine activists died.
Other ships were similarly stopped and boarded, without loss of life.

"We expect to encounter resistance throughout our mission," said Australian activist Michael Coleman.

"Ours is not an illegal activity in any shape or form. The International Court of Justice has asked them to grant unfettered access to aid into Gaza and I implore them to let us and other aids through immediately," he said.

The Handala was visited in Malta by 78-year-old retired US Army Col. and diplomat Ann Wright, who was on board another coalition ship boarded by Israeli troops in 2010, in the incident in which nine activists died.
So she's an experienced asshole terror supporter
"These people are very brave, because we don’t know what’s going to happen. If the

…that’d be the Mavi Marmara..

Israelis stop them, we know it’ll be brutal," Wright said.

The brightly colored Handala carries activists from Italia, La Belle France, Norway, Australia, the Netherlands, Syria and a number of Paleostinians. It has made several port calls around Scandinavia and the Mediterranean to raise awareness about the situation in Gaza.

Its hull carries slogans reading: "Free Paleostine," "Gaza you are not alone" and "Stop the Genocide," while its humanitarian aid cargo consists mostly of medicines.

The trip along the Eastern Mediterranean to Gaza will take a week but organizers said they might stop over in another harbor on the way.
Or become a reef

Posted by:Fred

#8 "Soylent Chum is Gazans!"

Posted by: SteveS 2024-08-17 19:08

#7 too stringy and bitter for sharks of distinguished taste

Posted by: Frank G 2024-08-17 18:19

#6 Sharks need food too

Posted by: Silentbrick 2024-08-17 15:36

#5 Can they tie up to Biden’s pier and unload? One way to make sure nothing gets through.

Posted by: Glenmore 2024-08-17 12:44

#4 They will become an obvious target for a Houthi missile.

Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 2024-08-17 10:01

#3 Target practice.

Posted by: alanc 2024-08-17 08:33

#2 Rainbow Warrior II.

Posted by: EMS Artifact 2024-08-17 07:56

#1 deliver humanitarian aid to Paleostinians in the Gazoo

500+ trucks a day not enough?

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-08-17 01:49

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