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Eight sailing boats carrying almost 70 people from more than 20 countries left Sicily on Saturday, with a ninth much larger vessel expected to catch them up today.
The flotilla is expected to reach the interception zone early next week.
68-metre passenger ship the Conscience tried to sail to Gaza in May with @GretaThunberg on board, but it was attacked by drones off the coast of Malta, leaving it too severely damaged to continue. It has now been repaired and is sailing with dozens of medics and international journalists on board.
The first eight boats, meanwhile, are carrying elected politicians from France, Belgium, Ireland, Spain, the United States and Denmark; Irish author @NaoiseDolan, who had to pull out of the Global Sumud Flotilla after her boat was cancelled in Tunisia; and French-Malian racial justice activist Assa Traore.
Speaking from on board, Dolan said that given Israel has been committing a genocide for the past two years, everyone was well aware of the risk when they signed up, and - far from being deterred by the interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla on Wednesday - they were “sailing faster”.
“Every boat we launch is a direct challenge to the blockade and a declaration of solidarity,” organisers said in a statement. “We sail not as charity, but as part of the global struggle to end apartheid and affirm the right of the Palestinian people to live free.”
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), which coordinated the Madleen and Handala missions earlier this year, has been sending boats to Gaza for 15 years, while Thousand Madleens to Gaza (TMTG) is a grassroots initiative it inspired.
Many of the boats, which can all be tracked online, are named after Palestinians, including Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who was targeted and killed by Israel in August, and paediatrician Alaa Al Najjar, whose husband and nine children were killed in an Israeli airstrike while she was at work.
“For nearly two years, the illegal Israeli occupation has blocked international journalists from entering Gaza, creating one of the most dangerous press blackouts in modern history," the FFC said. "This boat is our challenge to that silence.”
Bernie Sanders says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, becoming the first sitting U.S. senator to do so after nearly two years of Israel's brutal assault on the Palestinian territory that has killed tens of thousands of people.
He also called on the U.S. to use "every ounce of our leverage to demand an immediate ceasefire" and begin the process of Palestinian statehood.
Italian dockworkers say they plan to block all shipments bound for Israel if the Gaza aid flotilla is intercepted by the Israeli military.
Union representatives from the CALP (Autonomous Collective of Port Workers of Genoa) warned that ports across Europe could join in coordinated strike action on the 22nd of September when the flotilla is expected to reach Gaza.
The dockworkers framed the blockade as part of a wider push to cut commercial ties with Israel in response to its assault on Gaza.
"Razrešeni predsednik Republike Srbske Milorad Dodik je v odzivu na prepoved vstopa v Slovenijo Srbe pozval, naj na naslednjih volitvah v Sloveniji glasujejo proti vladi Roberta Goloba in za prvaka SDS-a Janeza Janšo." https://t.co/KI5PvBAcgd
A video circulating online shows an Italian dockworker warning that if communication is lost with the Gaza flotilla that set sail from Genoa on Sunday, port workers will immediately block all shipments to Israel
"Mednarodno združenje strokovnjakov za genocid, vodilna svetovna organizacija strokovnjakov s tega področja, je sprejelo resolucijo, ki pravi, da so izpolnjena pravna merila za ugotovitev, da Izrael v Gazi izvaja genocid." https://t.co/i4BASxdGXa