A humanitarian ship with 12 activists on board, including Swedish ecological activist Greta Thunberg, arrived at the Egyptian coast and is closer to the Gaza Strip devastated by the war and besieged by Israel, the organizers announced on Saturday, June 7.
The Madleen, a sailboat of the flotilla coalition for freedom, left Sicily on Sunday to Gaza to provide humanitarian aid and “break the Israeli block” imposed on the Palestinian territory threatened with the famine according to the UN.
“We are currently sailing on the Egyptian coast,” said the German human rights activist Yasemin Care. “Everything’s fine”.
Refugees in the sea rescued by the sailboat
In a press release published on Saturday from London, the International Committee to break the headquarters of Gaza, a member of the Flotilla coalition organization, said the ship had entered the waters of Egypt, near the Gaza Strip.
He said he was in contact with international legal organizations to guarantee the safety of people on board, warning that any interception would constitute “a shameless violation of international humanitarian law.”
The War in Gaza was launched by an unprecedented attack on October 7, 2023 by commands of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas infiltrated in neighboring Strip in Gaza in southern Israel.
Israel launched a destructive offensive retaliation in Gaza that has been defeating since the beginning of the war with the declared objective of taking control of the territory, destroying Hamas and pushing him to make the hostages withdraw on the day of the attack and took Gaza.
On Thursday, the boat had diverted from its route to rescue four Sudanese migrants in the sea. The sailboat was then in the Mediterranean Sea, south of Greece and north of Libya and Egypt.
The boat flew through Greek drones
In addition to Greta Thunberg, the Franco-Palestine MEP Rima Hassan is also aboard the ship.
The flotilla coalition for freedom, founded in 2010, is a non -violent international movement of solidarity with the Palestinians, with a humanitarian dimension and a political defense against the blockade of Gaza.
Madleen takes “fruit juices, milk, rice, links, protein bars offered by hundreds of citizens of Catania,” wrote the journalist Andrea Legni, who climbed on board.
In early May, a ship with which the coalition of the flotilla for freedom hoped to recover the supporters, from Greta Thunberg- in Malta, then going to Gaza, had been damaged. The activists said they suspected an attack against Israeli drones.
Source: BFM TV
