New flotilla sets sail for Gaza in spite of mass arrests from Israel

After Israel this week attacked and seized, in international waters, almost fifty volunteer-crewed vessels sailing with baby food and other vital aid as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) to Gaza to break Israel’s starvation blockade, a new flotilla of nine boats has set sail, organised by the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and the Thousand Madleens group. The boats are live-streaming their voyage.

Israel’s allocation of naval resources to attacking the peaceful GSF fleet meant that, for the first time in months, Palestinian fishermen were able to catch food off the coast of Gaza for their families and neighbours this week – an act that was a death sentence under the blockade.

A simple statement from the new flotilla groups reads:

This is resistance. Free Palestine.

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