ACTION ALERT: Protect the Gaza Sumud Flotilla
Team Progress America
(September 27, 2925) — On August 31st, a fleet of ships set sail from Barcelona carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza. The Global Sumud Flotilla, joined now by a Tunisian contingent, will meet up with even more ships sailing from Italy and Greece—and then onwards to Gaza. The flotilla carries food, medicine, baby formula, and other essential goods for the starving and displaced Palestinian population in the enclave.
The supplies are critical support for the hundreds of thousands of civilians suffering under Israel’s ongoing military attacks and illegal 17-year blockade of the region.
International law maintains that Gaza is unlawfully occupied territory and that Israel’s blockade amounts to illegal collective punishment. Many experts, scholars, and humanitarian lawyers have identified Israel’s actions as a genocide against the Palestinian people.
Every state that’s part of the UN Charter and Geneva Conventions has an obligation to guarantee global respect for humanitarian law. And the US and EU have a responsibility to pressure Israel to end the blockade and allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.
US and European lawmakers—alongside the governments from every part of the world—must act now and demand safe passage for the flotilla’s humanitarian activists to successfully provide the aid that Gaza’s civilians so desperately need.
