The "Handala": two LFI elected officials will board a new humanitarian boat to Gaza on July 18

"For the children of Gaza, to break the humanitarian blockade, to stop the genocide, we are leaving next week on the Handala," a ship of the "Freedom Flotilla," an international non-violent movement in support of the Palestinians, she announced on X.

The MP specified that she would board the ship in Gallipoli on July 18, in southeastern Italy, with LFI MEP Emma Fourreau, "16 other crew members," and humanitarian aid. The ship will arrive a few days beforehand. "It's certainly symbolic aid, but it's a peaceful humanitarian mission, and we want to keep our eyes fixed on Gaza during this summer period," she argued.

This initiative will take place a month and a half after the departure of the Madleen, another ship that left Italy on June 1 to "break the Israeli blockade" of Gaza, which is in the grip of a disastrous humanitarian situation after more than twenty months of war. The sailboat was carrying 12 activists from France, Germany, Brazil, Turkey, Sweden, Spain, and the Netherlands, including environmental activist Greta Thunberg and LFI MEP Rima Hassan, who was detained three days after the ship's interception, about 185 kilometers west of the Gaza coast.