GAZA (PIC)– The National Commission for Breaking the Siege and Reconstructing the Gaza Strip has set up a plan to warmly welcome the Women’s Boat to Gaza flotilla set to dock at the enclave sometime soon.
The commission’s spokesman Adham Abu Salmiyeh said the flotilla marks another stopover in the ongoing journey to break the Israeli siege on Gaza.
According to Abu Salmiyeh the Women’s Boat to Gaza campaign is a reminder to the international community of its duties vis-à-vis two millions of people struggling for survival under a nearly one-decade-long illegitimate blockade.
The activist warned of the repercussions of a projected Israeli attack on the solidarity fleet as was the case with Freedom Flotilla III last year.
A new flotilla of international female activists left for the Gaza Strip from the Spanish city of Barcelona on Wednesday evening hoping to break a nearly decade-long Israeli blockade.
Two sailing boats Amal and Zaytouna with 30 women from different nationalities onboard put out to sea on way to the blockaded Gaza Strip carrying food and medicine that will hopefully be distributed to civilians upon arrival.
Sailing under the banner “Women’s Boat to Gaza” the activists aim to carry a message of hope and solidarity to Gazans.
The list of passengers include Tunisian MP Latifa Habashi; al-Jazeera’s renowned Algerian journalist Khadija Benguenna; Malin Björk a Member of European Parliament from Sweden; Ann Wright a retired U.S. Army Colonel and former U.S. diplomat who resigned in 2003 in opposition to the invasion of Iraq; and Dr. Fauziah Modh Hasan a Malaysian physician who has participated in many humanitarian missions with the Malaysian Medical Relief Society.
While they come from very different cultural and professional backgrounds they all share a common bond and find the blockade of Gaza and the occupation of Palestine absolutely unacceptable.
The Women’s Boat to Gaza is an initiative of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition composed of civil society organizations and campaigns from more than a dozen countries.
