3d ago

Aid flotilla with Greta Thunberg set to sail for Gaza to ‘break illegal siege’

www.theguardian.com

A flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, is due to leave from Barcelona on Sunday to try to “break the illegal siege of Gaza”, organisers said.

The vessels will set off from the Spanish port city to “open a humanitarian corridor and end the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people”, said the Global Sumud Flotilla.

They did not say how many ships would set sail or the exact time of departure. The flotilla is expected to arrive at the war-ravaged coastal enclave in mid-September.

“This will be the largest solidarity mission in history, with more people and more boats than all previous attempts combined,” Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila told journalists in Barcelona last week.

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3d ago

Aid flotilla with Greta Thunberg set to sail for Gaza to ‘break illegal siege’

www.theguardian.com /environment/2025/aug/31/aid-flotilla-with-greta-thunberg-set-to-sail-for-gaza-to-break-siege

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3d ago

Aid flotilla with Greta Thunberg set to sail for Gaza to ‘break illegal siege’

www.theguardian.com /environment/2025/aug/31/aid-flotilla-with-greta-thunberg-set-to-sail-for-gaza-to-break-siege

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Stories like this are what I cling to these days. But it's a double edged sword. We know they'll be illegally intercepted and stopped. We know the world governments will ignore it. But seeing good people refuse to sit by idly is still powerful. I know I'm just some guy, but I'd love to be there with them. I wear my "FEED GAZA" shirt but it feels like nothing in comparison.
we're gonna need a bigger boat
Again? How will they avoid the same outcome as last time?
- They won't guess they keep at it until Israel kills them. Which eventually they will and will have some lame as excuse for it.
- There's more boat this time. I guess the thing here is not sending out the aid, it won't be enough anyway, the thing here is to send a message, that there's people out there willing to risk their life sending aids into a heavily guarded open prison.
- more boats than all previous attempts combined
- Seriously. Did they find a significant chunk of a carrier group to tag along? Because otherwise it's going to end the exact same way....unless it ends much, much worse.
- Have something nice to say or shut up
  
  He's asking an honest question, it's better to educate then to insult. To answer his question I would simply respond that whatever the response is to Greta's flotilla it can be used to either advertise change or protest against the status quo. There's nothing that says it won't end up like last time, but the constant effort towards more humanity is worth doing because that's how we tell ourselves that we are still human.
  
  Who pissed on your cereal this morning?
She’s a true hero, risking her life for the cause not once but now for a second time!
She really puts her words into action.
Good luck out there Greta!
In June, 12 activists on board the sailboat Madleen were intercepted by Israeli forces 185km west of Gaza. Its passengers, who included Thunberg, were detained and eventually expelled.
Ah, I had only heard about the detention, that makes more sense.
Love the new do. She looks good in bangs.
Good luck to them in achieving their goals.

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