The flotilla that came out this Sunday towards Gaza with humanitarian aid and the goal of breaking the blockade in the strip has had to return to the port of Barcelona. The bad weather and the situation of the sea has forced the forty boats has returned to the port of departure. It is expected that this Monday morning the captains of the ships will meet to be able to resume the road to the Palestinian territory.
The vessels, with about 400 volunteer people on board, had sailed from Barcelona at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, wrapped by the screaming of the crowd, which has fired them between cheers and songs. At that time the Sirius, the Pinya or the Isobella of Cowes, have led anchors and the Palestinian flag, ready to cross the Mediterranean. These are only three of the 37 ships that have joined the initiative of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which will have just been completed with the ships that join them in the ports of Tunisia, Catania, Sicily and Greece on September 4.
Jordi Évole, Luis Tosar, Vicky Luengo, Carolina Yuste, Juan Diego Botto or Carlos Bardem are some of the people who have shown their support for the initiative. They have joined others such as Eduard Fernández or Greta Thunberg, as well as politicians of various formations that have decided to take for Gaza. The organizers expect the visibility that these names have given to the flotilla protect them.
This mission, one of the greatest to date, had jealously kept any data on the places where it will roast, the number of boats and even passengers until the last moment for security, but that has not worried the hundreds of people who have shown their support on the last weekend in nights that looked like music festivals and mornings of workshops and activities.
