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TIL in the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla nine activists were killed by Israeli forces.
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The Global Sumud Flotilla has now entered what they refer to as the danger zone outside the coast of Egypt, north of Suez. You can and should follow them live on their website. @Vegard@fribygda.no is the only person I'm aware of posting directly to the Fediverse from the first wave, but an unofficial channel is keeping us posted over at @globalsumudflotilla@mastodon.bida.im .
Rising public awareness about the flotilla puts pressure on governments to ensure their safety and to react if Israel infringes on their rights to sail in international waters and to open a humanitarian corridor. Anything we do to spread the word helps build pressure - this is one of the few times sharing stuff in social media is actually directly helpful. And unlike a lot of content from Gaza it can be a hopeful rather than (only) depressing message.
The next wave of the flotilla—Thousand Madleens to Gaza—is currently passing by the south of Greece. You can follow the French delegation at @1kmadleenfr@mastodon.social and the the Danish delegation at @thousandmadleensdenmark@radikal.social .
In other news I just re-watched Dunkirk yesterday. It's a powerful story about what a flotilla of civilian ships can be capable of.
I guess there’s no way to follow them from a Lemmy instance?
Yeah, I guess these links are not all that useful to most people here unless they also have Mastodon accounts or something. I like to try to link other parts of the Fediverse when relevant, but I guess it's really limited how useful it is.
I saw Rimu post something about working more towards mastodon integration in Piefed at some point, and for Mbin users at least it makes sense.
I was just watching the tracker.. saw 3 ships got intercepted.. went for a walk and now website is not working? (redirects somewhere else)
Edit now it just says not found instead of asking for some login on some hosting site
Edit again came back up
Nine ships intercepted as of 0:33. Apparently the israelis are shooting with water cannons to try to deter the others from continuing, hopefully they lack the capacity to board all the remaining ships before dawn. 33 ships remain on their way to Gaza, one of which (the Marinette) is significantly behind the others.