Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Activists Blocked from Sailing to Gaza But Vow to Keep Trying to Break Siege
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Published 2024-04-29
Hundreds of activists aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla were blocked in Turkey on Saturday as they attempted to set sail for the besieged Palestinian territory with 5,500 tons of aid. Organizers say Guinea-Bissau withdrew its flagged ships under pressure from Israel and the United States. The Gaza Freedom Flotilla brings together a “cross-section of humanity” in hundreds of community leaders from all walks of life to raise awareness of Israel’s blockade of Gaza and rally support for its end. “We are determined to stop this by direct action” where international governments “have sadly failed,” says one of the organizers of the Freedom Flotilla, the Palestinian American human rights attorney Huwaida Arraf. “This is not the end. We are pursuing this legally and politically,” she says about this latest “minor setback.” Arraf was part of the previous iteration of the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla, in which 10 participants were killed in an attack from the Israeli Navy when it raided the ships in international waters.
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All Comments (21)
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Appaling! Blocking humanitarian aid is plain EVIL!!🤬 🇮🇱👎👎🤮🤮
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Cruelty!! Cruelty!!! CRUELTY!!!! Babies necessities should not be blocked. That’s beyond evil
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Crimes against humanity.
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Is the Flotilla not a flag in herself? She has the flag of humanity. She has the flag of majority of the world. The Flotilla must sail. She is sailing with the entire freedoms the earth has ever mustered. Long live the Flotilla.
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They tried to dehumanize the Palestinians, but the only people they dehumanized were themselves.
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Such atrocities. We are ashamed to be a part of this world today😢😢
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Israel impunity needs to stop!!
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People who are willing to sacrifice there lives for humanitarian cause is really touched the souls. Hope they'll be save on aiding operations for human kind. Missionary ✌️
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May you be allowed safe passage soon before those aid expires. The Palestinians desperately need this aid.
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Kudos to all these brave people! There's still some decent people in this world.
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The humanitarian flotilla should be let in
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I definitely agree that Netanyahu and his senior war antorage to be arrested for war crime in Gaza .That's murder to its highest degree, the many women and children murdered but Israel is too much to bare.Isreal should be made to pay reparations and damages to these people..These people were not members of Hamas.
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Blinken is traveling to keep the war going not stop ceasefire
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In the meantime, America keeps sending Killer Bombs.
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If you are not actively part of the resistance, you’re complacency is complicity.
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My prayers are all directed to the Palestinian people and to God to stop this genocide.
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Blinken is seeking supports to not isolate Israël 😮
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Save humanity, stop genocide, free palestine 🇵🇸
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I am so proud of you all ,Thank you for your amazing generous courageous gift to Palestine
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Crime of all crime's.
