Help Ship That Transported Greta Thunberg, Susan Sarandon And Other Activists, Will Sail Gaza

A flotilla actress, Susan Sarandon, activist Greta Thunberg and others left Barcelona for the Gaza Strip on Sunday with humanitarian aid on board.

Sumud’s global flotilla will try to break the Israeli block of the Palestinian territory and bring humanitarian aid, food, water and medicine to Gaza so much Israel increases its offensive in the city of Gaza.

“The story here is about Palestine,” said Thunberg at a press conference in Barcelona. “The story here is how people are deliberately being deprived of very basic media to survive.”

Food experts warned earlier this month that Gaza City was in the famine and that half a million people throughout the strip faced catastrophic levels of hunger. The almost 23 months war has killed more than 63,000 people, with at least 332 Palestinians who die of malnutrition, including 124 children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health led by Hamas.

The humanitarian flotilla leaves Barcelona to Gaza while activists mobilize against Israel's help blockade — Activists, including Swedish activist, Greta Thunberg, leave Barcelona to Gaza as part of the Global Sumud (GSF) flotilla, a “non -violent self -denominated humanitarian mission that responds to genocide and an ongoing siege against the Palestinian people.”

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The Maritime convoy, which includes approximately 20 ships and delegations from 44 countries, will join additional ships from ports in Italy, Greece and Tunisia in the next few days while navigating its route from the Western Mediterranean to the Gaza Strip, the organizers said.

The actor of Thunberg, Sarandon and “Game of Thrones”, Liam Cunningham, are some of the most recognizable figures in the expedition, as well as activists, politicians such as the former mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau and journalists.

“It has been very clear that Israel has been continuously violating international law by attacking, illegally intercepting ships in international waters and continuously avoiding humanitarian aid,” Thunberg said in an interview with Associated Press on Saturday.

It is not the first time that Thunberg and Cunninham will try to reach Gaza Waters this year. She was Deported in June When the ship was traveling with 11 other people, Madleen was arrested by the Israeli army.

Cunningham, who will join the flotilla, played a video that shows a girl singing while planning her own funeral. The girl, Fatima, died four days ago, said.

“What kind of world have we passed where children are making their own funeral arrangements?” Cunningham told journalists.

At the end of July, the The Israeli army stopped another help shipThey arrested 21 international activists and reporters, and confiscated their load, including the formula for babies, food and medicine, according to Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

An Israeli official said on Saturday that the country will soon stop or slow humanitarian aid in northern parts LoopAs his military offensive against Hamas expands, one day after the city was declared a combat area.

The war began on October 7, 2023, when an attack by Hamas’ terrorists within Israel claimed the lives of 1,200 people, most of them civilians and took 251 people as hostages.