By the slogan “When the world remains silent, we are sabotaging”a flutter that carries humanitarian aid and activists, including Sweden Greta Tuneg and actress Susan Sarantonis expected to leave Barcelona today in trying to ‘break the illegal gauze blockade“, According to the organizers.

Vessels – the exact number of which has not been clarified – will start from the Catalan port to “They open a humanitarian corridor and put an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people who are ongoing”according to the initiative organizers Global Sumudilla.

Actress Susan Saranton

“It will be the biggest mission of solidarity in history, with more people and more ships than any other attempt to reach Gaza”Brazilian activist activist in Barcelona reported last week in Barcelona Thiago Avila.

The decoration will unite “dozens” other ships, departing from Tunisia and other Mediterranean ports on September 4. At the same time, “solidarity with the Palestinian people” will be carried out in 44 countries, Greta Tumberg, a member of the Global Sumudilla Sumudilla Governing Committee, told Instagram in early August.

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‘A mission like this should not have to be there’the activist explained in an interview with the French Agency.

Should be “Responsibility (…) of our governments and elected officials to act and try to defend international law, prevent war crimes, prevent genocide.” yet “They do not do so and so they betray the Palestinians but also all humanity”he said. “So, unfortunately, it remains to us, the citizens, to organize this intuitive.”

In addition to Swedish activist, activists from dozens of countries will be involved in the lifelong as well as MEPs or personalities such as the former mayor of Barcelona Ada Kolau.

‘We think it’s a legal mission based on international law’For her part in Lisbon on Tuesday, Left MEP Mariana Mortagua will support the initiative.

Global Sumudilla (where “Sumud” means stability, persistence in Arabic) is described on its website as an “independent” organization that is “linked to any government or political party”. This new initiative is taking place after a similar attempt to provide assistance to Gaza, which was involved by Greta Tundberg and which failed.

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On the night of the 8th of June 9 Madleen sailboat (Madleen) on which 12 activists from France, Germany, Brazil, Turkey, Sweden, Spain and the Netherlands were occupied by the Israeli forces while in the 185 -mile -western forces. Then the occupants had been deported, some after their brief detention.

The UN said last week that there was a starvation situation in the Gaza Strip, an area destroyed by war, after experts warned that 500,000 people were in a “devastating” situation.

The attack by the Islamist organization Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023, which triggered the war, caused the deaths of 1,219 people, most of the civilians, according to a report by the French Agency on the basis of official data. Israeli retaliation in Gaza caused the death of 63,371 peoplein the majority of civilians, according to data from the Hamas Health Ministry – which runs the Gaza Strip – which the UN considers reliable.