TUNIS: More than 1,000 people gathered Sunday at a Tunisian port to welcome an aid boat from Barcelona carrying environmental activist Greta Thunberg and other pro-Palestinian campaigners seeking to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza. “We all know why were are here,” said Thunberg. “Just across the water there’s a genocide going on, a mass starvation by Israel’s murder machine.” European Parliament member Rima Hassan joined crowds at Sidi Bou Said port to greet the Global Sumud Flotilla. “The Palestinian cause is not in the hands of governments today.

Activists want to end Israel’s blockade of Gaza and expect to set sail on Sunday when flotilla from Spain arrives.

The boats, carrying 350 pro-Palestinian activists and stocked with medical and food supplies, are en route to Gaza.

TUNIS: More than 1,000 people gathered Sunday at a Tunisian port to welcome an aid boat from Barcelona carrying environmental activist Greta Thunberg and other pro-Palestinian…

Flotilla began departing Spanish island of Menorca on Thursday en route to Tunisia.