Yasemin Acar, an activist aboard the Madleen, a ship operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) heading to Gaza, warned Sunday that any Israeli assault on the vessel would represent “yet another war crime.”
“Basically, if Israel was to attack us, that would be yet another war crime. To add to their long list of war crimes,” Acar stated in a reside broadcast on social media.
“They are the ones carrying the weapons. We only carry humanitarian aid. And what people need to do is they need to understand that we are civilians and we carry no weapons at all. Only humanitarian mission,” she stated.
“I feel like I always have to repeat this because of Israel’s propaganda.”
As a part of the most recent mission organized by the FFC to interrupt the blockade on Gaza and ship support to the area, the 18-meter crusing boat Madleen set sail for Gaza on June 1 from the Port of San Giovanni Li Cuti in Catania, Sicily, Italy.
The ship is carrying urgently wanted provides for the individuals of Gaza, together with child formulation, flour, rice, diapers, ladies’s sanitary merchandise, water desalination kits, medical provides, crutches, and youngsters’s prosthetics, in keeping with its organizers.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has ordered the army to stop the vessel from reaching Gaza.
The Israeli Navy is getting ready to intercept the humanitarian vessel because it approaches Gaza’s waters, with plans to forcibly redirect it to Ashdod port.
Source: www.anews.com.tr