FREEDOM FLOTILLA The Madleen is currently under assault in international waters, communications are jammed, and a chemical substance has been sprayed on the ship

Freedom Flotilla’s Madleen nears Gaza as Israel issu...

Israeli commandos demanded the crew turn off their phones and put their hands up - contact with live feeds onboard the ship have been lost

Francesca Albanese is live on AJ now discussing the seizure of the vessel by Israeli troops:

LIVE - Al Jazeera English | Video broadcast from Al ...

horrific.

jfc

disgusting.

...oy.

HISSES

...it's telling that my brain initially parsed "Israeli MFA" as "Israeli Mafia"

...I'm pretty sure that counts as piracy.

"selfie yacht"?

why don't you open the fucking boarders and let aid go in

jfc i hate these people

careful tossing around the H word ><;;; the asshats are monitoring plurk now

(though I fully agree with you)

ah, great. still, my grandfather didn't bomb the shit out of nazis so people could let small children starve

hard agree. this shit has gone WAY too far, and it needs to end yesterday

they should have never been allowed to block off gaza in 2007

(and by 'too far' I mean 'even one millimeter inside Gaza')

sorry, i'm going to get inchorent with rage here

i feel like if my grandfather was alive, he would be horrified

...yeah, i have some relatives, at least one with a street supposedly named after him in Israel, who (from what i've been told anyway since they're all before my time) would be ready to throw tablets right now.

I really don't have words for my disgust at the Israeli government at this point, especially that they have the gall to pretend it has anything at all to do with protecting Jews. I'm pretty sure they would merrily feed every other Jew to lions if they thought that was what would let them keep a grip on power.

Liam Cunningham’s crew literally got kidnapped by the IDF along with Greta

This is insane but not the first time the Israel gotten away with such a crime. In 2010, Israel conducted a deadly raid on another Gaza bound ship as well. They killing 9 activists, and a tenth died after four years in a coma

ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝 ℝ𝕠𝕔𝕜𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕣 : liam cunningham wasnt onboard, he was at the port in sicily to show solidarity with the crew before departure

RUDE BUSTER : oh gotcha so it’s only Greta and twelve others?

the 12 activists are: baptiste andre, greta thunberg, marco van rennes, omar faiad (al jazeera journalist), pacal maurieras, reva viard, rima hassan (french palestinian member of european parliament), sergio toribio, suayb ordu, thiago avila, yanis mhamdi, yasemin acar

angrbodic : I agree, our grandfathers didn't kill nazis for THIS SHIT to be tolerated