The Gaza Flotilla Has Protection Now - And Israel's Not Happy

Right, so left wing French opposition leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon has promised to send in the French navy to protect Gaza flotillas if he wins next year’s presidential election, and Israel’s ambassador to France has wasted no time slapping the fascism label all over him on him like it’s a Black Friday flash sale. First come, first served. No refunds. For anyone preparing to sail on the next Flotilla however, there’s rather more riding on that than a row between politicians and a row over Zionism. They’re simply trying to get aid into Gaza. Forget everything else frankly, that comes first, especially as the people trapped in the largest open air concentration camp on Earth, a concentration camp now getting smaller and smaller as Israel seizes more territory to occupy, are now facing their fourth winter without shelter and in freezing conditions, not helped by the fact that Israel has picked now to stop replacement tents and shelters getting into the Strip after devastating flooding has washed so much of what was there away. For the Global Sumud Flotilla though, Israel has as we know thrown the kitchen sink at stopping earlier missions, and people who came back from Israeli detention have already told us what happened to them.