Breaking: Israeli warships and drones are surrounding the Handala ship near the shores of Gaza

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#BREAKING 🚨🚨

Israeli warships and drones are surrounding the Handala ship near the shores of Gaza, amid growing fears it will be prevented from reaching the port and breaking the siege

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Who is Handala, the barefoot, spiky-haired boy who symbolizes Palestinian resistance?

RAMALLAH, West Bank — His hair is like a hedgehog, his feet are bare, his clothes are rags and his back is to the world always. His name is Handala.

A character created by Palestinian newspaper cartoonist Naji al-Ali in 1969 — two years after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war — the boy known as Handala is a symbol of the Palestinian struggle and resistance to occupation to this day.

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Handala is forever 10 years old — the age that Ali was when his family was forced to move during the mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948 when the state of Israel was formed. Palestinians and their supporters refer to that displacement as the Nakba, or Arabic for "catastrophe."

Ali's refugee boy character shares his name with a resilient, bitter plant that grows in the Middle East called handal. It has deep roots and will always grow back even if it's weeded out.

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https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/1228097975/handala-naji-al-ali-cartoon-palestinian-symbol

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1. EEK!! Vicious humanitarians are about to invade a prison and distribute AID!!

Not to mention that they may interfere the war crimes being committed by the heroic jailers.

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2. Israeli soldiers have BOARDED the Handala aid flotilla

Israeli soldiers have BOARDED the Handala aid flotilla.

Cameras being shut down.

The ship seeking to give aid to Palestinians is carrying volunteers from the US, France, Italy, UK, Spain, Australia, and more.

Volunteers’ hands are up.

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3. FULL LIST OF THE HANDALA ACTIVISTS KIDNAPPED

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/live/2rQXNifjaJ4

✅ Christian Smalls – Founder of the Amazon Labor Union 🇺🇸
✅ Huwaida Arraf – Human rights lawyer 🇺🇸
✅ Jacob Berger – American Jewish activist 🇺🇸
✅ Bob Suberi – American veteran of Jewish descent 🇺🇸
✅ Breydon Peluso – Sailor and field activist 🇺🇸
✅ Dr. Frank Romano – International lawyer and actor 🇫🇷🇺🇸
✅ Emma Fourreau – Member of the European Parliament and activist 🇫🇷🇸🇪
✅ Gabriel Cathala – Parliamentarian and former humanitarian worker 🇫🇷
✅ Justine Kempf – Nurse with “Doctors of the World” 🇫🇷
✅ Ange Sahoket – Engineer and human rights activist 🇫🇷
✅ Antonio Mazzio – Teacher, researcher, and journalist 🇮🇹
✅ Antonio “Toni” La Piccirella – Organizer of climate and social justice campaigns 🇮🇹
✅ Santiago González Vallejo – Economist and activist 🇪🇸
✅ Sergio Toribio – Engineer and environmental activist 🇪🇸
✅ Robert Martin – Human rights activist 🇦🇺
✅ Tanya “Tan” Safi – Journalist and organizer of Lebanese descent 🇦🇺
✅ Vigdis Bjørvand – Lifelong justice activist, aged 70 🇳🇴
✅ Chloe Fiona Lowden – Former UN employee and scientist 🇬🇧🇫🇷
✅ Hatem El-Ouini – Trade unionist and international activist 🇹🇳
✅ Mohammed El-Bakkali – Senior journalist with Al Jazeera (residing in Paris) 🇲🇦
✅ Waad Al-Moussa – Photographer and field correspondent with Al Jazeera 🇺🇸

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[Ping Tung]

4. These are the kind of people that should win the Nobel Peace Prize.

[AloeVera]

5. Yes. Also the kind Israel fears most. Like Rachel Corrie. N/T