U.S. PRESSURES TURKEY TO BLOCK GAZA FLOTILLA
April 24, 2024Türkiye is under significant pressure from the US and Israel to block the flotilla from setting sail and achieving its objective of delivering aid and breaking the blockade.
“The best scenario, they said, is that our three ships–one carrying 5,500 tons of humanitarian aid and two carrying the passengers–will reach Gaza and accomplish our mission. Another scenario would be that the Turkish government might cave to pressure from Israel, the United States and Germany, and prevent the boats from even leaving Istanbul. This happened in 2011 when the Greek government buckled under pressure and ten boats were stalled in Greece,”Medea Benjamin, an American political activist and author who is joining the flotilla, said.
The aim of the mission, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), is to breach Israel’s naval blockade of the Palestinian enclave, where the United Nations says 1.1 million people are in danger from a looming famine. Since 2007, Israel has maintained a sea, land and air blockade on Gaza under the guise of preventing weapons from reaching Hamas.
Out of dozens of flotillas that have challenged the blockade over the past decade, only five have reached Gaza’s shores without being intercepted, according to the FFC.
Nine Gaza-bound flotilla activists were killed in 2010, with the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) finding Israel had used “excessive”force and that the activists had acted “recklessly”in attempting to breach the blockade.
THE FLOTILLA MUST REACH GAZA!!
BACK OFF AMERICA! YOU’VE DONE ENOUGH DAMAGE!!
NOW, WHEN CITIZENS OF THE WORLD ARE RECTIFYING YOUR MISTAKES, YOU WANT TO STOP THEM TOO!!
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Medea Benjamin: Help! We are stuck in Turkey. We’re supposed to be on boats on our way to Gaza. First, we had some technical issues, those have been taken care of and now we have political issue, which is the U.S. government is putting pressure on the Turkish government to stop us from sailing. So, we need your help. Please call the numbers below and tell them to stop blocking the flotilla from leaving Istanbul so that we can get on our way to Gaza with 5,500 tons of medical aid and much needed food. Let the flotilla sail.
