Italy's Appeals Bounce Off Gaza's Aid Fleet
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The Gaza aid mission "Global Sumud Flotilla" is unimpressed by the appeals of the Italian President Sergio Mattarella. Activists reject a course correction. 50 boats from 44 countries are travelling to the crisis area. Mattarella had urged the fleet participants to accept an offer from the Catholic Church, which provides for bringing the aid carried to Cyprus so that they can be safely transferred from there from the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusa…
The proposal was made by the Italian authorities and reiterated by the Minister of State and Foreign Affairs, Paulo Rangel. "It is well documented the regular blockade of humanitarian aid by Israel at the entrance of Gaza as the systematic killing of civilians at distribution points," the members of the fleet stressed.
In a statement that Lusa had access, the three Portuguese rejected the possibility of humanitarian aid being delivered to Cyprus and subsequently charged to Gaza by the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem for later being delivered by the Israeli State. "It is well documented the regular blockade of humanitarian aid by Israel on the entrance of Gaza as the systematic killing of civilians at points of distribution," the members of the fleet stressed. …
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