Huge crowds gathered at the port of Tunisia on Sunday to welcome Greta Thunberg as Flatilla, bounded in Gaza, Gaza, moored at the port.
The Swedish climate activist travels with 350 pro-Palestinian activists on boats filled with help they hope to deliver to the Palestinians in Gaza.
Photos of the Sidi Bou said that the port shows hordes of people surrounding the 22 -year -old woman when she was addressed to the crowd. “We all know why were here,” she said. “Just through water, there is an in progress genocide, mass famine of the murder machine of Israel.”
Israel has repeatedly denied that there is starvation in Gaza and has blamed all hunger in Hamas and aid agency failures.
Last month, an organ supported by the UN confirmed that there was famine in the territory and that the UN humanitarian chief said that it was the direct result of “systematic obstruction” of Israel of the aid entering Gaza.
The French-Palestinian member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan was at the port.
“The Palestinian cause is not in the hands of governments today. It is in the hearts of peoples everywhere,” she said, adding praise for those who are united with the Palestinian people.
The flotilla organizers said that the objective of their mission was to “break the illegal seat of Israel on Gaza”, but the trip was not always a smooth navigation – a previous attempt in June was intercepted by Israeli forces.
The latter attempt started on Monday, when the flotilla of around twenty ships had Barcelona sail.
The group will now remain in Tunisia for a few days, before resuming the trip to Gaza, reports the reuters news agency.
“Some of the flotilla ships to Gaza have reached Sidi Bou have said that the port in Tunisia, where it will be extended, responsible for additional help and joined by the Tunisian team for the next stage of the mission,” wrote the collective group of activists Sumoula Flotilla on X.
The Israeli authorities characterized Thunberg’s previous attempt to sail in Gaza as an advertising that offered no real humanitarian assistance.
In March, he introduced a total blockade of almost three months on supplies entering the band, saying that the aid was taken by Hamas. It began to allow limited aid in the territory after increasing international pressure.
