Gaza Flotilla with Greta Tunberg aboard Barcelona

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The boat fleet headed for a gas carrying 350 propalist activists – including the climate change campaign Greta Tunberg – withdrew from Barcelona.

About 20 ships showing Palestinian flags left the Spanish harbor at 19:00 local time on Monday, equipped with medical and food supplies.

The fleet for the first time tried to sail on Sunday, but had to return to the harbor because of violent weather.

The purpose of the mission is to “interrupt Israel’s illegal siege of Gaza,” the organizers said – although a previous attempt to reach gas by sea was captured by the Israeli forces.

Sumud Flotilla’s global mission plans to launch in two waves – the first from Barcelona and the second from Tunisia on September 4.

Activists hope the boats will approach the Mediterranean before sailing to Gaza, a trip that is calculated to take seven or eight days.

“We are sailing again to break the siege and open a humanitarian corridor,” Tunberg said in a video message.

Punk singer Bob Willen – who has sparked disputes about the leading of the “death of the IDF (Israeli Defense Force)” in Glastonbury – talks to the departure of the fleet on Sunday.

He called the activists as “brave personalities” who “tried to do what was to be done through government intervention a long time ago.”

The Israeli authorities characterized a previous attempt to sail the Gaza help as a stunt cascade that did not offer real humanitarian aid.

In March, Israel introduced an almost quarterly common blockade of goods entering Gaza before allowing a limited amount of goods back into the territory at the end of May after international pressure. Since then, it has not been announced that it has been declared that there is a hunger in parts of the gas.

Since then, Israel has been trying to impose its own system of distribution through the controversial Humanitarian Foundation Gaza, which has been criticized by help agencies.

In June, a yacht bearing Tunberg and several other activists – and a symbolic amount of humanitarian aid – was captured by the Israeli forces as he tried to reach the gas.

The Israeli authorities accompanied the activists to the port of Ashdod before being deported from the country.

In 2010, Israeli commandos killed 10 people when they boarded a Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, which led an auxiliary fleet to Gaza.

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