Liebe IPPNWlerinnen,
– ich poste das auch, um die Aktion bekannt zu machen und damit auch zu schützen.
– Literaturhinweis: in der aktuellen Ausgabe der Blätter ist ein ausgezeichneter Beitrag der italienischen Philosophin Cinzia Sciuto: „Frieden durch Recht-Wider den falschen Realismus der Machtpolitik“, derzeit noch kostenpflichtig (€ 5,00)
https://www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025/september/frieden-durch-recht
Gruss,
Dieter
Exclusive: Activists spoke while onboard aid flotilla aiming to deliver food, baby formula and medical supplies to territory
Thunberg is joined by hundreds of activists making up the Global Sumud Flotilla on a legal aid mission to Gaza, where civilians were facing “starvation, pure and simple”, the UN warned last month.
She said people around the world were “waking up” to what is happening to the Palestinian people and refusing to “watch a livestream genocide” take place.
“We have seen civilians all over the world stepping up but there is a huge absence of those whose legal responsibility it is to step up,” she said. “These governments, these people in power, have a legal duty to act to prevent a genocide and to not support an apartheid regime.”
Their safety is not guaranteed as at least 10 activists have been killed and many more injured on previous missions.
Yasemin Acar, a German activist who was aboard the Madleen with Thunberg and is part of the current mission, said: “Many people around the world may say that this is a suicide mission and we are going to the belly of the beast, which is true. We are seeing what they’re doing to Palestinians.
“But the question should be, why should we fear for our life while we are carrying nothing but humanitarian aid to a population that is being starved, a manmade starvation supported by so many governments and states around the world?”
Thiago Ávila, a Brazilian activist who was also aboard the Madleen and is part of the current flotilla, said the missions were not getting safer but that the eyes of the international community were what was keeping them from being killed. The reason why we ask people to share the mission [on social media], it’s because this brings us visibility, not because Israel does not want to kill us – because they want to do with us the same thing that they do to Palestinians – but because they cannot afford to pay the political cost of that,” he said.
Thunberg: “Anyone who has any sense of humanity and common sense can see that there is absolutely, absolutely no justification for any of this, no matter what absurdly fabricated arguments Israel is using,” she said.
“But as they are escalating the genocide, we are also escalating the resistance. We are not able to just sit and watch a livestream genocide take place.”
