By forcibly intercepting and blocking the Madleen, Israel has once again ignored its legal obligations towards civilians in the occupied Gaza Strip. The crew were unarmed activists and human rights defenders on a humanitarian mission.
They must be released immediately and unconditionally. They must also be protected from torture and other ill-treatment.
As the occupying power Israel has an international obligation to ensure civilians in Gaza have sufficient and safe access to food, medicine, and other supplies indispensable to their survival. Instead, and as part of its calculated effort to inflict on Palestinians in Gaza conditions of life designed to bring about their physical destruction, it has consistently and deliberately impeded the provision of impartial humanitarian assistance for civilians in desperate need.
During its voyage over the past few days the Madleen’s mission emerged as a powerful symbol of solidarity with besieged, starved and suffering Palestinians amid persistent international inaction. However, this very mission is also an indictment of the international community’s failure to put an end to Israel’s inhumane blockade. Activists would not have needed to risk their lives had Israel’s allies translated their rhetoric into forceful action to allow aid into Gaza.
States must act now or risk complicity in Israel’s grave violations of Palestinians’ rights.
While people point out Greta was on the ship, it needs to be screamed louder that there was also a member of the European Union’s Parliament aboard: Rima Hassan
Israel just kidnapped a foreign government official in international waters on humanitarian aid to a sovereign people.
@therapparee@TheHarryMcC It's because each home pays a bin fee for their private bins, which incentivises people throwing away their home rubbish in public bins. If the bin services were paid per area, at a set fee, like in other parts of the world, we could have more public bins
@riverolavic Les senyals en totes les llegües més castellà:
Una està només en anglès, l'altra en català, catellà, anglès i francès.
Aquella no sap llegir
@OsgurOCiardha We do learn a foreign language in school. Unsurprisingly, we still don't have a nation of multilinguals. In fact, I would wager that most people complaining that Irish is useless don't speak another language, and people who do speak a foreign language also speak Irish
@esjesjesj Since 2020, wikipedia lists 40 attacks vehicle-ramming attacks worldwide. Since 15th November 2024, there have been 40 mass shootings in the US.
Wikipedia lists 6 vehicle-ramming attacks in Germany, despite 63% of German adults owning car. 32% of americans own a gun
@MacLeodLisa "a moral clarity deserving of Her rich history", the black and tans left Ireland to go kill Palestinians. THere is no way you can understand Irish history and not be in favour of the Palestinian struggle