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Jerusalem (AFP) โ€“ Israel on Sunday ordered the military to stop a humanitarian ship carrying activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, from breaking the blockade of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

"I have instructed the military to prevent the Madleen flotilla from reaching Gaza," Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a statement from his office.

Calling Thunberg an "antisemite" and the group of activists "Hamas propaganda mouthpieces", he added: "Turn back because you will not reach Gaza."

The Madleen, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, left Italy on June 1 with the aim of delivering aid and challenging the Israeli blockade, which has been in place for years even before the Israel-Hamas war since October 2023.

Organisers said Saturday the vessel had entered Egyptian waters and was nearing Gaza, where the war has entered its 21st month.

"Israel will not allow anyone to break the naval blockade of Gaza, which is aimed at preventing weapons from reaching Hamas -- a murderous terrorist group holding our hostages and committing war crimes," Katz said.

"Israel will act against any attempt to break the blockade or support terror groups -- by sea, air or land," he added.

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The western ~~Palestinian~~ Israeli movement has become a hate group, and isn't making any effort to mitigate anti-semitism within it's ranks. Only make excuses are you are doing.

~~This flotilla~~ UN food distribution is an ~~anti-~~Israeli propaganda mission, it doesn't have anything to do with humanitarianism. Everyone, I mean everyone, knows Gaza is being blockaded and everyone knows there is no possibility of ~~this ship~~ any food actually getting to Gaza. One wonders if they even bothered to actually put food ~~on the ship~~ at the distribution center, because the point isn't actually to get food to Gazans. The point is entirely about ~~pushing an anti Israel narrative~~ bombing the children who show up.

Israel is not the victim here.

~~Israel~~ palistine is not a single person. The ~~Israelis~~ Palestinians being held hostage are certainly victims. Antisemitism in ~~the wast~~ Israel has reached a point where it's no longer safe to raise awareness that ~~hamas~~ Israel is still holding ~~Israelis~~ children hostage, see the ~~Boulder, CO attack~~ the blockade. You're being told you should dehumanize all ~~israelis~~ Palestinians (along with anyone that even has empathy for ~~Israelis~~ Palestinians) so you can believe a simple narrative where all ~~Israelis~~ Palestinians are evil. Likely you're also being told that anyone that has empathy for ~~Israelis~~ Palestinians being held hostage are evil (aka the ~~"Zionist Jews"~~ Hamas). You're probably just not to the point where you're believing all ~~Jews~~ semites are evil, but you might be willing to look the other way about the actions of those that do.

That's how antisemitism works. 100% of the population of Nazi Germany didn't hate Jews. They only needed to be made willing to look the other way and not ask too many questions while the Nazis were doing what they were doing.

You should be more willing to question the motives of the "Free ~~Palestine~~ the hostages" movement. "Free Palestine" were the words of a nutjob that tried to kill as many Jews he could simply because they had NO empathy for people being held hostage. What is the real goal of this movement? How are they trying to accomplish those goals?

See I can make inflammatory shit too. Mine is even a little more accurate. :)