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More Ships Join Greta Thunberg's Gaza Flotilla to Break Blockade (swedenherald.com)
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Further ten ships will join the fleet with Greta Thunberg and other activists who will sail towards Gaza to break Israel's blockade

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://swedenherald.com/article/more-ships-join-greta-thunbergs-gaza-flotilla-to-break-blockade

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[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 6 days ago

Its actually less than it was a few days ago. Down to 47 from 51 ships on the official tracker. https://globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/

They are actually on the way to Gaza at this point, unless they plan on making a stop in Egypt. Until now they were waiting for more boats to meet up with the main group.

[-] unconsequential@slrpnk.net 19 points 6 days ago

Agreed. This appears to be a second wave.

FFC and Thousand Madleens Launch Next Wave of Boats to Gaza

The nearly 70 citizens on board, from 20+ nationalities and all ages, gender, race and creed, are reinforced by 9 elected officials from the Belgian, Danish, European Union, Irish, French, Spanish and U.S. parliaments who carry the voices of their constituents with them.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 6 days ago

The GPS location for each ship updates every 10 minutes or so. You can basically track the whole thing live. The red dots is where ships were fire bombed by unknown... (read IDF)

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Once again, it bears repeating that it's not Greta Thunberg's flotilla, but the flotilla put together by other people that Greta Thunberg hitches her name and fame to.

[-] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 53 points 6 days ago

I think a better connotation would be “lends.” Greta Thunberg lends her name and fame to.

The media would care a lot less about the flotilla if it didn’t have a household name onboard. “Hitches” implies Thunberg is doing it for her own benefit. “Lends” has the opposite implication.

[-] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social -3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I used that term entirely on purpose: you are indeed correct that Greta Thunberg helps the operation by giving it the press time it wouldn't have without her. But the operation itself helps her stay in the limelight, which is kind of her entire job at this point.

It's mutually beneficial: her brand and the Palestine operation help each other. And there's nothing wrong with that.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 6 days ago

A person is not a brand

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 38 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You ruined it at the end. It's flottilas which Greta is member of. Greta like all the other members are risking their lives.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

You sound a little biased, my friend.

[-] Coupable@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

What a silly thing to get pedantic about.

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