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Yet another set of boats and ships are heading to Gaza to try and break the Israeli closure… this could get silly.<\/p>\n
UPDATE Monday 1 September – the ‘intrepid’ sailors have returned to Barcelona due to heavy seas.<\/p>\n
Climate campaigner Greta Thunberg joined a flotilla of boats loaded with aid for Gaza as they set sail from Barcelona on Sunday, aiming to break Israel’s naval blockade and deliver food and other humanitarian supplies to the shattered enclave.<\/p>\n
Israel has argued that the blockade imposed in 2007 is necessary to stop weapons being smuggled to the Hamas militant group and has described other attempts to break it – including Thunberg’s in June – as a propaganda stunt in support of Hamas.<\/p>\n
\n\n“This is a mission to challenge the extremely violent, business-as-usual international system that is failing to uphold international law,” Thunberg told the crowd before the departure of the flotilla of dozens of boats, set to be joined by more along the way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n\nAnd when they try to deliver food in Gaza what happens – Hamas attacks and loots the food convoys. For once she is right – that violence needs to stop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\nOrganisers of the flotilla blamed global leaders for failing to put pressure on Israel to allow aid to pass after a global hunger monitor said part of Gaza was suffering from famine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n\n\nNot letting food in seems to be a Hamas problem.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nThe flotilla will be joined by more boats setting off from Greece, Italy and Tunisia, said Yasemin Acar, a member of the steering committee.<\/p>\n
In the northwestern Italian port of Genoa, some 250 metric tons of food for Gaza has been collected from local groups and residents, organisers said.<\/p>\n
Some of the aid was loaded on board boats setting off from Genoa on Sunday, while the rest will be sent to the Sicilian port of Catania, from where more vessels are due to leave for Gaza on Sept. 4.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n\nSounds well organized. Do I hear Farsi accents in the background? Or merely Hungarian?<\/p>\n
New game: Israel stops the flotilla to search the ships and boats. Any resistance or any weapons found, they sink the boat. How many would arrive in Gaza? Who would distribute the supplies and make sure it went to the starving PEOPLE, not Hamas? Maybe Israel needs to just sit back, pop a few beers, and watch…<\/p>\n
Had a bizarre thought… Hamas has honeycombed pretty much everywhere it goes with tunnels. I read where they found a bunch of Hezbollah tunnels in southern Lebanon as well. All that tunneling… makes you wonder if radical Islamists are the predecessors to the Morlocks?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"