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Flotilla leaves Barcelona in biggest attempt yet to break Israeli blockade of Gaza
Scripps News ^ | 7:40 AM, Aug 31, 2025 and last updated 11:13 AM, Aug 31, 2025 | AP via Scripps News Group

Posted on 08/31/2025 11:43:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Activists like Greta Thunberg and actors Susan Sarandon and Liam Cunningham are participating.

A flotilla of ships departed from Barcelona to the Gaza Strip Sunday with humanitarian aid and activists on board in the largest attempt yet to break the long Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory by sea.

This comes as Israel has stepped up its offensive on Gaza City, limiting the deliveries of food and basic supplies in the north of the Palestinian territory. Food experts warned earlier this month that the city was in famine and that half a million people across the strip were facing catastrophic levels of hunger.

The Global Sumud Flotilla is carrying food, water and medicine. Activists on board demanded safe passage to deliver the much-needed aid and the opening of a humanitarian sea corridor, according to a statement. The almost 23-month war has killed more than 63,000 people, with at least 332 Palestinians dying of malnutrition, including 124 children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

The maritime convoy of about 20 boats and delegations from 44 countries is claimed to be the largest attempt to date to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip by sea, which has now lasted 18 years. They will be joined by more ships from ports in Italy and Tunisia in the coming days, on the route from the western end of the Mediterranean to the Gaza Strip, organizers said.

Thousands of supporters flocked to the Barcelona pier, some of them wearing kaffiyehs and chanting “Free Palestine!” and “Boycott Israel!” to send off a wide variety of boats, flying Palestinian flags, from rundown old luxury yachts to tiny wooden sailboats and industrial-looking vessels. One of them, the Sirus, is more than 100 years old.

Around 70 boats are expected to take part in the final leg of...

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What do you call a flotilla of Lefty celebrities leaving Barcelona heading for Gaza at the bottom of the ocean?
1 posted on 08/31/2025 11:43:22 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

(Activists like Greta Thunberg and actors Susan Sarandon...)

Hooboy....


2 posted on 08/31/2025 11:45:08 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Indeed!

And...

Why won’t sharks eat Leftist Celebrities?


3 posted on 08/31/2025 11:45:44 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Again?


4 posted on 08/31/2025 11:46:36 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Please Lord, let Israel sink them.


5 posted on 08/31/2025 11:46:42 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“What do you call a flotilla of Lefty celebrities leaving Barcelona heading for Gaza at the bottom of the ocean?”
A good start.
A better start is to include the corrupt ‘journalists’ who are either lying about the cause of the starvation or have the professional competence of a Biden.


6 posted on 08/31/2025 11:47:03 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: SaveFerris

Sink them, sink them all in the river and the sea.....


7 posted on 08/31/2025 11:47:40 AM PDT by BFW
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To: rlmorel

There are some things even sharks won’t eat.


8 posted on 08/31/2025 11:47:46 AM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well to borrow from the lawyers joke....a good start?


9 posted on 08/31/2025 11:48:13 AM PDT by xp38
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Sink them. Or rather, give one clear warning. Wait an hour for them up turn around and go home. If not, sink the lead boat and take it from there as necessary. Let’s put an end to this pro- terrorist hullsheit propaganda garbage,
. Oh yes, arrest the financiers snd orgdnziers of this rabble brigade —- there’s the most culpability of all.


10 posted on 08/31/2025 11:51:31 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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...it was an easy target...


11 posted on 08/31/2025 11:51:43 AM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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This is perhaps the greatest liberal virtue signaling we have ever seen. There is no shortage of food and medicine in Gaza, if Hamas would stop stealing it. This is completely unnecessary which, of course, why it is so appealing to the liberal mind


12 posted on 08/31/2025 11:52:22 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: rlmorel

What did sharks ever did to you?


13 posted on 08/31/2025 11:52:22 AM PDT by Mi-kha-el ((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
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What did sharks ever do to you?


14 posted on 08/31/2025 11:53:11 AM PDT by Mi-kha-el ((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Why isn’t Gaza self sustaneable?


15 posted on 08/31/2025 11:54:10 AM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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There is no shortage of food and medicine in Gaza, if Hamas would stop stealing it.

Same deal in Somalia back in the early '90s.

We got involved — Black Hawk Down.

16 posted on 08/31/2025 11:56:44 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Paladin2

It could have been if during Yasser Arafat rule, they didn’t use every dime to create the bunker system Israel just destroyed.
Gaza could have had high end hotels and resorts on the Med.


17 posted on 08/31/2025 11:58:58 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: Mi-kha-el

Not cause me to give them indigestion? (yet)


18 posted on 08/31/2025 11:59:00 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

19 posted on 08/31/2025 12:03:26 PM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Save the sharks, sink them all!


20 posted on 08/31/2025 12:04:04 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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