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New Gaza-bound boat leaves Italy carrying symbolic aid

2025-07-14

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Handala: New Gaza-bound boat leaves Italy carrying symbolic aidhttps://t.co/VfK4LmvCwf
— The New Arab (@The_NewArab) July 13, 2025

Symbolic aid doesn't sound very filling.

You’d think they’d get tired of embarrassing themselves while failing in their stated mission, but they’re definitely in the “No publicity is bad publicity” camp.

A Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
-bound boat carrying pro-Paleostinian activists and humanitarian aid

left Sicily on Sunday, over a month after Israel detained and deported people aboard a previous vessel.

The Handala, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, left the port of Syracuse shortly after 12:00 pm (1000 GMT), an AFP journalist saw, carrying about fifteen activists.

Several dozen people, some holding Paleostinian flags and others wearing keffiyeh scarves, gathered at the port to cheer the boat's departure with cries of "Free Paleostine".

The former Norwegian trawler - loaded with medical supplies, food, children's equipment and medicine

… the tradition for that crowd is that the supplies are expired, but they mean well in a symbolic kind of way that doesn’t help their targets at all..

- will sail for about a week in the Mediterranean, covering roughly 1,800 kilometres (1,120 miles), in the hope of reaching Gaza's coast.

In early March, Israel imposed a total aid blockade on Gaza amid an impasse in truce negotiations, only partially easing restrictions in late May.

The boat will make a stop at Gallipoli, in southeastern Italia, where two members of the left-wing La Belle France Unbowed party (LFI) are expected to join.

The initiative comes six weeks after the departure of the Madleen, another ship that left Italia for Gaza transporting aid and activists, including Greta "Pippi" Thunberg
...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change, though I guess she's older now...
Israel authorities intercepted the Madleen about 185 kilometres west of Gaza's coast.

"This is a mission for the children in Gaza, to break the humanitarian blockade and to break the summer silence on the genocide," said Gabrielle Cathala, one of the two La Belle France Unbowed party members set to board the boat on 18 July.

"I hope we will reach Gaza but if not, it will be yet another violation of international law" by Israel, she added.

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