Peace activists from several countries are setting out on a converted trawler to defy an Israeli blockade and deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Reuters reports.
The “Handala” was visited in Malta by 78-year-old retired US Army Colonel 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.
“These people are very brave, because we don’t know what’s going to happen. If the Israelis stop them, we know it’ll be brutal,” Wright said.
The brightly coloured “Handala” carries activists from Italy, France, Norway, Australia, the Netherlands, Syria and a number of Palestinians. It has made several port calls around Scandinavia and the Mediterranean to raise awareness about the situation in Gaza.
RIP
Depends how determined they are, the voyage is going to have every obstacle
On May 31, 2010, the Gaza Freedom Flotilla comprising of the Mavi Marmara, Sfendoni, Challenger I, Eleftheri Mesogios, Gazza I and Defne Y vessels, departed with the aim of delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza but were confronted with an illegal raid and intervention by Israeli military forces. The vessels were only carrying humanitarian aid and aid workers. During this attack and in its aftermath, 10 humanitarian aid workers lost their lives and 56 were severely injured. Nine of the 10 were brutally killed during the attack, and the 10th victim died after spending a prolonged period in a coma
I hope the history doesnt repeat.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_flotilla_raid this is so insane.
Trust me… they will be certain there were hamas terrorist on boars somewhere so they had to use neuclear warheads on them. It is their right to defend themselves
Israeli military states hamas submarines where using the trawler’s wake to pass through the blockade. After repeated calls for the trawler to stop, hamas submarines fired torpedos and hit the trawler. Due to the proximity of the submarines to the trawler, the submarines where also destroyed. One of the errant hamas torpedoes hit a hospital in northern Gaza. There were no survivors.
The results of a thorough and very transparent investigation of a very tragic situation
The official statement of the Biden administration is “we expect our partners in Israel to conduct a full and thorough investigation and will not comment on the matter further until Israel has told us what to think.”
In the mean time UK and Germany have agreed to send more torpedoes so that Israel can protect its naval borders from further incursions
They are about to find Hamas tunnels under that ship, aren’t they?
That’s a really good idea. Kudos to them, hope their voyage is safe.
I have a sinking feeling it won’t be a safe voyage. Dollars to donuts the IDF sinks it and claims that it was actually a weapons shipment headed to Hamas and not humanitarian aid for Palestinians.
I doubt it actually. They do allow some food aid in, just not enough. If they didn’t, then everyone in Gaza would have starved already. They have no local food production anymore and a human cannot go 6 months without eating.
Stopping a single boat of food aid is probably not worth the diplomatic blowback it would cause.
Oh man let them in. I want to see how fast they run when they see what Hamas actually operates.
Wasn’t there supposed to be a ship with activists delivering aid from Greece or someplace a few months back? I wonder what became of that…
I hope this one makes it safely.
I believe there was one departing from Turkey and the Turkish government stopped them.
Thanks. It would have been great if it made it through.
Ann Wright
“These people are very brave, because we don’t know what’s going to happen. If the Israelis stop them, we know it’ll be brutal,”
America
It is the right of Israel to defend itself from people who wish to help other people whom Israel doesnt consider people.
