CATANIA: Worldwide nonprofit organisation Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) mentioned one among its vessels left the Italian port of Catania on Sunday (Jun 1), heading for Gaza to ship humanitarian assist, after a earlier try failed on account of a drone assault on a separate ship within the Mediterranean.
The crew of volunteers, together with local weather activist Greta Thunberg and Irish actor Liam Cunningham, set sail on the Madleen, carrying barrels of what the group known as “restricted quantities, although symbolic”, of reduction provides.
One other vessel operated by the group, the Conscience, was hit by two drones simply outdoors Maltese territorial waters in early Could. FFC mentioned Israel was responsible for the incident. Israel has not responded to requests for remark.
“We’re doing this as a result of it doesn’t matter what odds we’re towards, we now have to maintain making an attempt, as a result of the second we cease making an attempt is once we lose our humanity,” Thunberg instructed reporters at a convention earlier than the departure.
She added that “irrespective of how harmful this mission is, it’s nowhere close to as harmful because the silence of all the world within the face of the lives being genocised”.
