Aid flotilla with Thunberg set to sail for Gaza

A FLOTILLA carrying humanitarian aid and activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, was due to leave from Barcelona yesterday to try to “break the illegal siege of Gaza’, organisers said.

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The vessels will set off from the Spanish port city to “open a humanitarian corridor and end the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people’, said the Global Sumud Flotilla.

They did not say how many ships would set sail or the exact time of departure.

The flotilla is expected to arrive at the war-ravaged coastal enclave in mid-September.

“This will be the largest solidarity mission in history, with more people and more boats than all previous attempts combined,’ Brazilian activist Thiago Avila told journalists in Barcelona last week.

Organisers say that dozens of other vessels are expected to leave Tunisian and other Mediterranean ports on September 4.