cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36603369
Italy is sending a ship to accompany the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, who said its activists remain shaken but determined following an Israeli attack on Wednesday morning.
Organisers of expedition, which is attempting to carry aid to the Gaza Strip, shared footage this morning appears to show an explosion that detonated on one of the flotilla’s vessels.
Late on Tuesday activists heard explosions and saw drones that targeted some of their boats, currently situated off Greece. “Multiple drones, unidentified objects dropped, communications jammed and explosions heard from a number of boats,” the Global Sumud Flotilla said.
“I have authorised the immediate intervention of the Navy’s frigate Fasan, which was sailing north of Crete and is heading towards the area,” Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said in a statement.
Yeah but libs are fine with hypocrisy if it’s in their interests. None of those global south libs would balk or blink an eye at sanctions against Israel.
The real insidious part of American sanctions are that they involve secondary sanctions. They don’t just go after their target, they go after anyone who trades with the target. China could do sanctions without any secondary sanctions and the global south wouldn’t mind at all since that’s the part that’s actually really oppressive to them.
Yeah because it/was still too costly to come out in support of palestine. South Africa was only opposed by its neighbours and the communist and it took until the 1990s for apartheid to fall. But the strength of israhell is wavering, because of the acts of the pro-Palestinian crowd and so the barrier for the global south libs to become more proactive is lowering.