{"id":22991,"date":"2025-07-28T20:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uit-ci.org\/?p=22991"},"modified":"2025-07-28T20:47:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T20:47:13","slug":"new-flotilla-sets-sail-for-gaza-to-break-israeli-blockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/new-flotilla-sets-sail-for-gaza-to-break-israeli-blockade\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"New flotilla sets sail for Gaza to break Israeli blockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><i>By IWU-FI<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/i>On the 20th of July, the ship &#8216;<i>Handala<\/i>&#8216; set sail from Italy to Gaza to bring global solidarity to the Palestinian people. After Israel intercepted the Madleen vessel on June 9th, and deported Greta Tumberg and other activists, the new initiative seeks to reach Gaza with food aid and break the criminal siege with which Israel is starving hundreds of people, particularly children.<\/div>\n<p>On this new and important initiative, the &#8216;<i>Freedom Flotilla Coalition<\/i>&#8216;, has 19 activists and two renowned journalists on board the ship &#8216;<i>Handala<\/i>&#8216;, including French MP Gabrielle Cathala from &#8216;<i>France Unbowed<\/i>&#8216; (<i>La France Insoumise<\/i>) and Chris Small, leader and founder of the Amazon union in the United States.<br \/>\nAccording to their official social media accounts, \u00ab<i>The boat is carrying as much baby formula, food, and medicine as possible, but its aim is to end the need for aid by breaking Israel&#8217;s illegal siege. Keep your eyes on our team, and demand their governments uphold international law by ensuring safe passage<\/i>\u00ab.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0These important initiatives, together with the international mobilisation and the refusal of port and dock workers in Marseille, France, to load weapons for genocide, are strong expressions of global condemnation of the genocide perpetrated by Netanyahu, Israel and US imperialism led by the far-right Donald Trump.<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<i>International Workers&#8217; Unity \u2013 Fourth International<\/i>\u00a0(<i>IWU-FI<\/i>) salutes this new and courageous action. We call on the peoples of the world to sustain the mobilisation of solidarity with Palestine and demand that the governments of all countries allow the free and safe passage of the Handala and its crew. We demand the opening of all borders and the free entry of all food and medical aid. Egypt and the Arab countries must open their borders! Break off relations with Israel and impose an arms embargo! Zionist troops out of Palestine and Syria! Stop the genocide! For a single, secular, democratic and non-racist Palestine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By IWU-FI \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0On the 20th of July, the ship &#8216;Handala&#8216; set sail from Italy to Gaza to bring global solidarity to the Palestinian people. After Israel intercepted the Madleen vessel on June 9th, and deported Greta Tumberg and other activists, the new initiative seeks to reach Gaza with food aid and break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22993,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22991\/revisions\/22993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uit-ci.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}