Wael Nawar, a member of the Maghreb Steering Committee and one of its spokespersons, said: “The global steadfastness flotilla to Gaza will depart on Wednesday, at exactly 4:00 PM Tunisian time (15:00 GMT) from the port of Sidi Bou Said.”
"The port will be dedicated to the large number of participants in the flotilla and ships," Nawar added in a press statement. "The activities will take place on the beach (adjacent to the port), where the ships will enter and pass in front of the crowds to greet and bid farewell to them, and then set off towards Gaza."
For her part, French Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan, from the France Insoumise party, told Anadolu Agency, "It is very important to control the sea as a space of freedom." She added, "Owning the sea as a space of freedom is important as a symbol of this process."
Second attack
Earlier Wednesday morning, organizers of the Global Resilience Flotilla announced that a second boat from the flotilla, carrying activists and aid for the Gaza Strip, was attacked by a drone while anchored in Tunisian waters Tuesday night. This came a day after they announced a similar attack on a first boat on Monday night.
The flotilla, which set sail from Barcelona, Spain, bound for Gaza in an effort to "break the Israeli blockade" of the Palestinian enclave, said, "A second boat from our fleet, the Alma, was attacked by a drone while anchored in Tunisian waters."
He added in a statement on his Instagram page that the strike caused a fire on the deck of the vessel, which was quickly extinguished without anyone being injured.
According to the statement, the British-flagged boat "Alma" was targeted in Tunisian waters off Sidi Bou Said, a northern suburb of Tunis. The statement explained that the boat "suffered damage from a fire on its upper deck. The fire has since been extinguished, and all passengers and crew members are safe."
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A new attack on the Steadfastness Flotilla heading to Gaza, and a fire broke out without injuries.
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He said, "These repeated attacks come in the context of escalating Israeli aggression against Palestinians in Gaza, and constitute a deliberate attempt to distract attention and derail our mission."
French MEP Rima Hassan, from the France Insoumise party, commented on the incident with the first Spanish ship: "We are more motivated and determined. The feeling that we are being attacked for the core of this issue, which is delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza and breaking the siege, allows us to mobilize global public opinion and gather as many people and means as possible to release as many ships as possible."
Earlier on Tuesday, Ghassan Al-Hanshiri, spokesman for the Global Steadfastness Flotilla, called on Tunisians to "come out in the thousands to bid farewell to the flotilla on Wednesday, as it heads to the Gaza Strip to break the (Israeli) blockade."
On Sunday, approximately 20 ships from Spain as part of the "Global Resilience Flotilla" began arriving off the Tunisian coast, in preparation for heading to the Gaza Strip in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade and open a humanitarian corridor to deliver aid.
At the end of last August, approximately 20 ships in the fleet departed from the Spanish port of Barcelona, followed by another convoy at dawn on September 1 from the port of Genoa in northwestern Italy.
The flotilla consists of the Freedom Flotilla Federation, the Global Gaza Movement, the Steadfastness Flotilla, and the Malaysian Sumud Nusantara organization, and includes hundreds of activists from more than 40 countries.
Israel has previously piracy against ships sailing alone towards Gaza, seizing them and deporting the activists on board.
This is the first time that this number of ships have sailed together towards the Gaza Strip.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving 64,605 Palestinians dead, 163,319 wounded, most of them children and women, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that has killed 399 Palestinians, including 140 children.
