Israel will not allow the humanitarian aid of the ship – the transport of activists, including the Swedish advocate Greta Thunberg – to get into Gaza, said Defense Minister Israel Katz on Sunday.
No vessel will be allowed to violate the naval blockade, which is primarily to prevent the transfer of weapons to Hamas, the Minister said.
“I ordered the Israeli defensive forces to act to prevent” Maddleen “hate fleet in achieving Gaza,” Katz said in a post on the X. “Anti-Semitic Greta and her colleagues Hamas Propaganda spokespersons, I say clearly:
The civilian ship sailed from Sicily 1. June, according to the Freedom Flotilla coalition, which operates a vessel. The organization, which describes itself as the Solidarity Movement at the local level, said on X that the ship is about 160 naval miles from Gaza.
“We will not be intimidated,” the group replied in the paper on X. Israel “has no right to defend our mission,” he said.
The group previously tried to break the blockade, most recently a month ago, claiming that the ship was deactivated by a strike of drones.
Israel has been in the war with Hamas since October 7, 2023, when a militant group launched a surprising attack, which killed about 1200 people and resulted in 250 hostages. More than 50 of these prisoners remain in Gaza and Israel believes that about 20 is alive.
Hamas, which has determined the US and the European Union, claims that more than 54,000 Palestinians have been killed in conflict without distinguishing between civilians and warriors. Israel has lost more than 400 soldiers to fight in Gaza.
Some of the closest European allies of Israel, including Germany, Great Britain and France, have become more and more criticized for the behavior of war in a country that destroyed a large part of the coastal lane and caused what international agencies for help say. They are considering business sanctions and frames to sell weapons to push Israel to end the war.
At the beginning of March, when a six -week ceasefire ended and Hamas ended, Israel stopped entering Gaza to Gaza to Gaza to Gaza, and Hamas refused an American proposal to expand the ceasefire and relax more hostages. The Israeli authorities claim that Hamas is carrying shipments to finance salaries and hiring militants. However, under increasing international pressure, they allowed limited supplies to assistance.
At the same time, the Humanitarian Gaza Foundation supported by the US and Israel at the end of May has opened operations to distribute the help of the population without Hamas.
Despite difficulty in the country, the Swiss non -profit organization said on Sunday that it has reopened three distribution points and launched a pilot program supplying reserves directly to community leaders. The group distributed enough staples to prepare more than 10 million meals, she said.
With the help of Marissa Newman.
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