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    Another Freedom Flotilla to Gaza in 2020 Archived Message

    Posted by Mary on December 27, 2019, 3:31 pm

    Ramzy Baroud writes

    On the Road to Gaza: The Freedom Flotilla Will Sail Again
    December 24th, 2019

    What is Gaza to us but an Israeli missile, a rudimentary rocket, a demolished home, an injured child being whisked away by his peers under a hail of bullets? On a daily basis, Gaza is conveyed to us as a bloody image or a dramatic video, none of which can truly capture the everyday reality of the Strip — its formidable steadfastness, the everyday acts of resistance, and the type of suffering that can never be really understood through a customary glance at a social media post.

    At long last, the chief prosecutor of the International Court of Justice (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, has declared her ‘satisfaction’ that “war crimes have been — or are being — committed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip”. As soon as the ICC statement was made on December 20, pro-Palestinian groups felt a rare moment of relief. Finally, Israel will stand accused, potentially paying for its recurring bloodbath in the isolated and besieged Gaza Strip, its military occupation and apartheid in the West Bank, and much more.
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    https://dissidentvoice.org/2019/12/on-the-road-to-gaza-the-freedom-flotilla-will-sail-again/

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