Israel vows to prevent aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg reaching Gaza
Israel’s defence minister has vowed to prevent an aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists from reaching the Gaza Strip.
Israel Katz said on Sunday that Israel will not allow anyone to break its naval blockade of the Palestinian territory, which he said is aimed at preventing Hamas from importing arms.
He said in a statement: “To the antisemitic Greta and her fellow Hamas propagandists – I will say this clearly: You should turn back, because you will not make it to Gaza.”
Climate campaigner Thunberg is among 12 activists aboard the Madleen, which is operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
Mission
The vessel departed Sicily last Sunday on a mission that aims to break the sea blockade of Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid, while raising awareness over the growing humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave.
The activists had said they planned to reach Gaza’s territorial waters a week later.
Rima Hassan, a French member of the European Parliament who is of Palestinian descent, is among the others onboard. She has been barred from entering Israel because of her opposition to Israeli policies towards the Palestinians.
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After a three-month total blockade aimed at pressuring Hamas, Israel started allowing some basic aid into Gaza last month, but humanitarian workers have warned of famine unless the blockade and the war end.
An attempt last month by Freedom Flotilla to reach Gaza by sea failed after another of the group’s vessels was attacked by two drones while sailing in international waters off Malta. The group blamed Israel for the attack, which damaged the front section of the ship.
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If any harm comes to Greta Thunberg, it will be Netanyahus’ finger on the trigger and his neck in the rope. He needs to be worried because the actual fingers on triggers are attached to the same sick minds that rummage through the underwear drawers of their Palestinian victims. HIS life in THEIR grubby hands. Truly terrifying.
And “Anti Semitic” is a nonsense. All the peoples from this area – Arabs, Phoenicians, etc. were/are Semitic. As for Israel well, it does not exactly endear itself to others. The rest of the world, leaders aside, is really beginning to detest that place, and some of its people, for what it is/they are/ doing, led by a bunch of psychopathic narcissistic murderous sickos. History will judge them, they will not be forgiven. If they can murder, not kill, murder little kids, defenceless women – and all the rest- they can murder anyone they don’t like. And that could be… Read more »
She will rightly be denied access to a warzone. No-one in any job anywhere in the world that involves searching premises for weapons, evidence or contraband is going to bypass the underwear draw out of modesty. What a strange complaint.
Wearing the contents of the underwear drawer, smashing TVs and crockery, sledgehammering through worktops. These are the searching techniques used by ‘the most moral army in the world’ whilst recording themselves committing these war crimes. All evidence guaranteeing their conviction at the International Criminal Court.
A reminder that Israel is having to send its 18 year olds into a warzone because Iran is fighting an oil funded proxy war using Palestinians as combatants.
The world will be a better place when trump and Israel are a thing of the past.
Thanks Steve for reminding us that much of the so-called support for Palestinians is just a handy vehicle for those wishing to eradicate the Jewish state. But in the interests of balance, can you confirm if it’s all religious states you want to erase or just the Jewish one?
The Navies of the north Med nations should provide an armed escort, one ship from each nation plus armed aircraft ready to deal with any Israeli military asset that threatens…
Too late, kidnapped at sea…!
Isreal don’t want people seeing what they are doing to innocent people.
I hope they stay safe.