The navy frigate sent by Spain to accompany the humanitarian Global Sumud Flotilla of around fifty volunteer-crewed vessels taking aid to Gaza is unlikely to intervene to prevent any attacks by Israel on the fleet, which Israel has bombed and harassed nightly since its arrival in the Mediterranean.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez has instead said that the vessel will ‘assist’ – which appears not to mean any military resistance to Israeli attacks – and “carry out any rescue”:

Italy has given similar indications, even asking the flotilla to surrender the aid and discontinue its voyage to Gaza, which the volunteers have refused to do. The presence of the navy ships has become little more than political theatre useless to prevent Israel’s attacks when they inevitably become more deadly as the flotilla approaches the Gaza coastline.

Shameful and inexcusable.

By Skwawkbox

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