BARCELONA: A flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon, left Barcelona on Sunday vowing to try to “break the illegal siege of Gaza,” organizers said.
This comes as Israel has stepped up its offensive on Gaza City, limiting the deliveries of food and basic supplies in the north of the Palestinian territory.
Food experts warned earlier this month that the city was in famine and that half a million people across the strip were facing catastrophic levels of hunger.
The Global Sumud Flotilla is carrying food, water, and medicine.
The story here is how people are being deliberately deprived of the very basic means to survive
