Activists and analysts – spoke to the “Beyond the News” program – said that Israel will commit a war crime and attack international law if it attacks The ship “Madeleine” Headquarters Gaza To break the siege on its people, and indicated that the Israeli history in dealing with the ships of the Freedom Flotant confirms that it will implement its threats against “Madeleine”.
This solidarity ship continues its way towards the Palestinian sector in an attempt not only to approach more than the suffering of its residents, but also to deliver their voice to a world that is watching the massacres, starvation and displacement of their right.
Brazilian activist Thiago Avila, from the Madeleine Team, did not rule out at any time an Israeli attack, and said that they expect that “Israel is exercising a war crime to attack a civil humanitarian mission,” describing those on board the ship as a group of civilians from 7 countries trying to violate the siege and open a humanitarian passage.
He reminded that “Israel committed multiple crimes and imposed a siege for 18 years, in addition to its plan to implement a genocide for 8 decades, and now it imposes an applied siege, there is no food and no drop of water entering Gaza, and even the process of distributing aid made it military.”
Avila stressed that they are currently 140 miles from Gaza, but they are still in international waters, and they would like to move to Palestinian territorial waters and not Israeli, and he also explained that if Israel had intercepted the ship, it would have violated the International Court of Justice and committed a crime of war. And he expected to reach the Palestinian territorial waters on Monday afternoon.
On the announcement of Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz that he ordered the army to prevent the arrival of the ship, the Brazilian activist said that they know that “Israel is committing atrocities against the Palestinian people” and it can kill all those on the ship if it wanted, stressing that they have emergency measures to protect themselves.
On the other hand, Israeli media said that the naval forces conducted a training off the coast of Ashdod on how to seize the “Madeleine” ship.
Avila stressed that they do not have any guarantees from any country, although their goal is to provide food for people who are starving to death, and that governments must act before it is too late.
The ICRC said that its affiliated “Madeleine” is facing “a serious Israeli jamming”, while a French doctor on board confirmed that a manager has been flying over her hours ago.
Arab paralysis
For his part, the deputy in the Swedish parliament, Laureena Delgado, said that Israel has historically attacked civilian activists, and did so with any attempt to break the siege on the Palestinians, and added that the Palestinian people are subjected to genocide, and when Israel prevents the “Madeleine” ship from reaching Gaza, it commits a crime.
She considered that “Israel is not a democratic state because it occupies another state, and it applies the system of racist separation that contradicts democratic values” expected that the supportive activity of Palestine in Western countries will continue, expressing the hope that governments will act in accordance with international laws.
For his part, the researcher at the Sorbon University, Dr. Mohamed Heneid, said that “Madeleine” succeeded morally by leaving European ports and heading towards the Gaza Strip, and expected that Israel would return the same scenario of 2020 when a ship attacked “There is no Marmara“The Freedom Fleet has killed 9 people and wounded others.
Heneid criticized the Arab silence about what is happening in the Gaza Strip, and said that the movement of Western civil society is offset by a state of Arab paralysis politically, institutional and civil.