The IDF detained Swedish Samaritan Greta Thunberg and other volunteers aboard a fleet of Gaza-bound aid ships, sparking global outcry. Two NATO ships had been protecting the flotilla from IDF drone attacks. The flotilla was trying to break Israel's 18-year blockade of Gaza and get aid into the war-ravaged enclave. 29 GSF boats were still sailing and were about 46 nautical miles from Gaza, while 15 boats had been intercepted. Flotilla organizers labeled Israel's interception of the ships "an illegal attack" on humanitarians, while Israel bleated the Samaritans were "not interested in aid, but in provocation." Angry people gathered in Italy, Turkiye, Greece, Tunisia, and Argentina to denounce the immoral act of piracy. Rome and Paris warned Israel to protect their detained citizens from harm. Colombia cancelled its free trade agreement with Israel and began expelling their entire delegation. Turkiye called the interception an "act of terrorism."
Meanwhile the corpses in Gaza continue to amass. In the past 24 hours, the IDF killed 85 human beings according to the Palestinian Health Authority. Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement after the GOP budget was passed thanks to Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and so on 18 March the IDF promptly resumed the Nakba to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Since 7 Oct 2023, the IDF has killed 66,148 Palestinians, mostly women and children; 168,716 are injured or maimed. By contrast, the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viet Cong (VC) guerrillas needed twenty years to kill 58,281 of our Servicemembers in SE Asia; the IDF easily surpassed this number within two years. Unless stopped, my pencil and paper estimates, as well as AI calculations, projects the IDF will probably kill 72,000 to 75,000 Palestinians in Gaza before the end of 2025 as they rid the enclave of Muslims to make way for Israeli real estate developers and rabid religious Settlers. An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC remains active for Benjamin Netanyahu. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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"As Israel's national football team gears up for World Cup qualifiers against Norway and Italy, Israel continues to perpetrate genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Over 800 athletes, players, and sports officials are among the more than 65,000 people Israeli forces have killed in a deliberate campaign of wholesale devastation, forced displacement, and starvation of civilians," wrote Agnes Callamard, Amnesty International's Secretary General.
Sources: www.amnesty.org; www.cnn.com; www.nytimes.com