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Monday, September 1, 2025
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Monday, September 1, 2025
After turning back due to weather, Gaza flotilla departs Barcelona again
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A vessel of a civilian flotilla, carrying pro-Palestinian activists, remains moored at Barcelona port on September 1, 2025, after being forced to return there due to bad weather. (Lluis GENE / AFP)
A Gaza-bound flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and pro-Palestinian activists including environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg departs Barcelona again, several hours after winds forced it to return to the Spanish port, according to AFP journalists at the scene.
Around 20 vessels left the Spanish city yesterday aiming to “open a humanitarian corridor and end the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people,” during the Israel-Hamas war, said the Global Sumud Flotilla — sumud being the Arabic term for “resilience.”
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