2018 Boats to GazaMay-July 2018

The Great Return March

Israeli Snipers

Tear Gas Shot from Israeli Drone

3rd Friday

April 6

12-year-old Abdel Rahman Nawfal-Mangled Leg 

Hundreds of Disabling Injuries-21 leg amputations- “expanding bullets”

Problems in Treatment of Injuries

•limited medical facilities have been stretched thin by the number of injuries.

• only a few weeks of saline solution and antibiotics left.• only around 50 orthopaedic devices, used to support

damaged bones or replace destroyed ones.•"I suspect they will be gone in a week," he said. Mai Yaghi

•,AFP•April 27, 2018

2009 Israeli Attack on Gaza with White Phosphorus in UN school

2014 Israeli Attack on Gaza

Israeli Attacks on Gaza

•2008-9: 9 Israelis (friendly fire by Israeli military) and 1,417 Palestinians were killed

•2012: 6 Israelis and 174 Palestinians were killed

•2014: 72 Israelis and 2,200 Palestinians were killed (4 Israelis and 100,000 Palestinians were left homeless)

Problems for Gaza

•o   97 percent of Gaza water is unfit for human consumption.•o   45 percent of medicines are absent from the warehouses of the

Gaza Ministry of Health, along with 28 percent of needed medical equipment.

•o   50 percent of Palestinian children need psychological counseling.•o   Only 54 percent of requested medical transfers to outside hospitals

in 2017 were approved—the lowest since 2006.•o   44 percent of the adult Gaza population is unemployed. Among

youth, it’s 62 percent and among those with disabilities, it’s 90 percent.

•o   65 percent of families live in poverty (95 percent among fishermen) and more than 72 percent don’t have enough food.

Death by Denial of Exit Permits

•50 people (40 cancer patients) died in 2017 when Israel denied them permits to get medical treatment in Israel or other countries.

Gaza Health System Collapsing: 40 Percent of Medicine Runs Out•When hospitals use up their fuel within a week, the lives

of some 1,700 patients will be at immediate risk, says a WHO report

•At the end of January, Gaza’s public health care system had run out of 206 essential medicines – that is 40 percent of medications included in the basic Palestinian health basket.

Trump Administration

•Cuts Support for Palestinian Refugees helped by United Nations Works & Relief Agency funding by 50%

•Schools, medical services, housing SEVERELY AFFECTED

TRUMP AdministrationUS Embassy to Open in Jerusalem May 10, 2018

•Palestinian Nakba Day-”Day of the Catastrophe-when 700,000 Palestinians had to flee their homes from Zionist terrorists who killed many and burned homes and villages---May 15, 1948

•Funded by Shelton Adelson-Gambling King-•$5 million to Trump’s campaign•Fundamentalist Christian groups•American Jewish groups

August 23, 2008, 2 Boats, 44 ordinary people from 17 countries arrive in Gaza

1st Freedom FLOTILLA6 Ships & Mavi Marmara—May 2010

IDF attack on Mavi Marama 201010 dead, 50 wounded

2011—10 BoatsUS Boat to Gaza-Audacity of Hope

2016--13 Women, 13 Countries1 Nobel Peace Laureate; 2 members of Parliament

1700 Mile Sail to Break Israeli Blockade of Gaza

2018 GAZA FREEDOM FLOTILLA--74 days, 14 portsMid-May-July 2018

Al Awda in Bergen, Norway

Other Port Visits of Al Awda & Freedom•Copenhagen, Denmark Naples, Italy•Wilhelmshaven, Germany Palermo, Italy•Amsterdam, Netherlands•Brighton, UK•La Rochelle, France•Caserse, Portugal•Cadiz, Spain•Caglaaria, Sardinia•Ajaccio, Corsica, France

2 Small Boats on Canals & Waterways

Going through Locks on Canals in Belgium

Police “escort” out of Paris for 2 Boats

Ship to Gaza at the Eiffel Tower

Al Awda Hijacked -5:30am

I n Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Joe & Jan Peter (Norway) in Palermo

Al Awda delegates & Crew

Freedom Crew & Delegates

13,000 euros, 116 boxes of surgical gauze and sutures on the boats

School Kids in Gaza

Waiting for You!! With Love!