Greta Thunberg's mission: Is your ship stopped?

Greta Thunberg's mission: Is your ship stopped?

Catania, Italien - Greta Thunberg and Elf activists have gotten to a delicate mission to bring humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. With your ship, the “Madleen”, you put off in the Sicilian port of Catania last Sunday to deliver food, baby food and medical material. Despite the critical humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, where, according to the UN, almost half a million people are threatened by a famine, the activists continue their journey, even though the Israeli military has warned to change the course, like Merkur reported.

The group, which also includes actor Liam Cunningham, emphasizes that it is unarmed and only wants to provide humanitarian aid. Rima Hassan, MP of the EU Parliament, made it clear that the activists are dependent on their protection by the governments, as they expect to be intercepted or attacked at any time. Israel's Minister of Defense Israel Katz said that the military was instructed to prevent the ship at the arrival of the Gaza Strip and threatened to insult the activists as anti -Semites.

The situation in the Gaza Strip

The humanitarian location in the Gaza Strip is alarming. Reports on food and medication lack are omnipresent, and Israel only allows a strictly controlled channel to deliver aid, which is criticized internationally. This emerges from a report by Tagesschau . In the past two months, no aid deliveries have been approved by the Israeli military. A new organization, the Gaza Humanitrian Foundation (GHF), is now planning to reorganize the distribution of relief goods. The aim is to supply 1.2 million Palestinians via various distribution centers.

Thunberg and her colleagues intend to draw attention to this critical situation with their mission. The "Freedom Flotilla", to which the "Madleen" belongs, is an attempt to break through the blockade and to put the dramatic living conditions in the region into the light of the public. Thunberg has loudly pointed out the problems in Gaza in the past, whereupon a German politician asked for an entry lock against them.

international reactions

The Israeli Minister of Defense has asked the ship's crew to reverse, and emphasizes that the mission of the activists has no chance of success. At the same time, the internationally criticized blockade of auxiliary deliveries by Israel is presented as necessary to prevent weapons smuggling and put pressure on Hamas. Critics, including government representatives from the EU, accuse Israel of violating fundamental humanitarian principles and calling for a change in cooperation.

The upcoming confrontation between the activists and the Israeli military could not only endanger the safety of the participants, but also lead to a new wave of criticism of Israel's handling of humanitarian aid. The international community observes the developments and remains uncertain how the situation will develop.