"How on Earth," asked the UN's top Palestine expert, "is possible that Israel is allowed to assault and seize vessels in international waters just off Greece/Europe?"

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46671737

Apr 30, 2026

Palestine defenders on Thursday condemned Israeli forces’ raidb of the latest Global Sumud Flotilla—which was sailing off the Greek coast while attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza—and the arrest of more than 200 of its participants, with some prominent critics calling the seizure an act of piracy.

Greenpeace International—whose MY Arctic Sunrise is the flotilla’s most prominent ship—said that the maritime convoy’s 58 vessels were “boarded and harassed by Israeli forces in international waters 45 nautical miles west of the Greek island Kythira and 600 nautical miles from Gaza.”

  • woodenghost [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
    9·
    11 hours ago

    Their citizens deserve better.

    What their government is doing has wide public support among the citizens of the settler colony.

    • 95% of Israelis supported the Israeli forces’ level of use of firepower in Gaza; 58% said they are using too little firepower (Tel Aviv University’s Peace Index, November 2023)
    • 64% of Israelis believe there are ‘no innocents’ in Gaza (Hebrew University aChord Center, June 2025)
    • 82% support the full ethnic cleansing expulsion of Gaza (Geocartography Knowledge Group, May 2025)
    • 56% support expelling Palestinians within Israel itself (Geocartography Knowledge Group, May 2025)
    • 47% want to kill every man, woman, child (Geocartography Knowledge Group, May 2025)
    • 65% oppose the criminal prosecution for soldiers who were caught on video gangremoved Palestinian detainees.

    Sources linked in this article.

    • orc girly@lemmy.ml
      4·
      8 hours ago

      I knew most of these statistics but it’s still insane to me that there can be people this monstrous, Israel can’t collapse fast enough