What a beautiful picture!



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Gaza flotilla: The tide of defiance against Israel is now an unbreakable wave

hey set sail not with missiles, nor with bullets, nor with armies, but with bread, medicine, and the stubborn conviction that conscience still has a voice in this world.

The first boats were small and few, most campaigns consisting of only a single vessel.

Today, the Global Sumud Flotilla sails on a scale the world has never seen: more than 50 vessels, carrying several hundred activists, lawyers, parliamentarians and journalists from over 44 countries.

From Spain, Italy, Tunisia, and Greece, it rose like a fleet of defiance, bearing on its decks the scattered humanity of the earth - writers, doctors, athletes, artists, and ordinary men and women who refused to let Gaza starve unseen.

Against the arrogance of Israel, a state that deems itself untouchable, against Washington that shields it with vetoes and bombs, these fragile vessels embody the oldest and strongest weapon of all: steadfastness.

The name itself comes from the Arabic sumud - steadfastness. It is the refusal of a people to be erased, the insistence on their right to endure and to be free...

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-sumud-flotilla-tide-defiance-against-israel-unbreakable-wave