#gaza-siege

#gaza-siege

Our reality has not changed. We are still under siege. Israel still has full control over our air, land and sea; it is still blocking sick and injured Palestinians from leaving and journalists, war crimes investigators and activists from going in. It is still controlling what food, what medicine, and essential supplies enter. The siege has lasted over 18 years, shaping every moment of our lives. I have lived under this blockade since I was just three years old.

Other civilian convoys-including the Global Sumud Flotilla, on which Greta Thunberg was detained on 1 October by Israeli security forces-were designed to carry aid to Gaza, where, under sustained Israeli attack, at least 66,000 people have been killed and 640,000 suffer from what a United Nations-backed expert panel recently dubbed a "man-made" famine. Israel has blocked food and medical aid from entering Gaza, barred all foreign journalists, and killed 223 Palestinian journalists.