The prostitute, one of the ships of the Freedom Flotilla, will leave Gallipoli, Italy, to go to Gaza to provide humanitarian aid to the population on the spot. The boat that was going to the base this Friday had to postpone his departure for this Sunday, July 20 for technical environments.
The handala, a ship of this non -violent international movement to support the Palestinians, had abandoned the port of Syracuse on July 13, with about fifteen activists on board.
A few dozen people, some equipped with Palestinian flags or Keffiieh, had gathered in the port to acclaim the game of the boat to the shouts of “free Palestine”, had noticed AFPTV.
Two elected officials of LFI present
This ancient Norwegian drag, responsible for medical equipment, food, children’s equipment and medicines, will navigate for approximately one week in the Mediterranean Sea to travel about 1,800 km to Gaza Côtes.
The expedition, financed by donation campaigns, aims to “bring international human solidarity to the Palestinian population of Gaza,” Claude Léostic told AFP on Saturday, coordinator of the “Flotilla for Freedom” in France.
After his departure from Syracuse, the boat stopped in Gallipoli, in southeastern Italy, where two elected representatives of the rebel of France (LFI), Gabrielle Cathala and Emma Fourreau, were on board on July 18 with the game pushed on July 20.
“It is a mission for children in Gaza, break the humanitarian block and break the silence of summer about genocide,” said Gabrielle Cathala. “I hope we get to Gaza, but if it is not the case, it will be another violation of International Law” of Israel, “he added.
“We went to Gaza on Friday to break the illegal blockade organized by Israel. This boat is for Gaza’s children, in the first line of genocide organized by Netanyahu,” he wrote in X, the Eurodiputada, Emma Fourreau.
A new boat after Madleen
The initiative occurs six weeks after Madleen’s departure, another ship that left Italy on June 1 to “break the Israeli block” in Gaza. The sailboat then had 12 activists on board, including the environmental activist Greta Thunberg and the Eurodiputa LFI Rima Hassan, who had been arrested three days after the interception of the ship, about 185 kilometers west of the coast of Gaza.
Israel, whose offensive began the day after the attack against the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on October 7, 2023, a humanitarian block imposed a humanitarian block in early March. This blockade has led to a very serious shortage of food, drugs and other basic needs, and only partially relaxed.
Source: BFM TV
