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New Maghreb Sumoud Flotilla to break the genocidal US/European/Israeli siege on Gaza announced, in a July 16 press conference in Tunis, that it will launch late summer/early fall, to join with other international sea-borne aid convoy efforts. Video by @MontassarSinkez

“If governments and armies did not move for Ghazza, then the people will” Amine Bennour, Tunisian doctor. About to sail to Ghazza among the flotilla of steadfastness to break the siege.

Demonstration in Tunis, Jul 14 demanding France release fighter Georges Abdallah after almost four decades in prison and parole grants. US officials have, for over a decade, worked to extend his detention. Photos by @MontassarSinkez

"The convoy wasn’t as we had left it. The convoy which had set out to break the Gaza siege was itself besieged. The siege was imposed by forces under the authority of General Khalifa Haftar under the pretext of 'security'" - ⁦@MontassarSinkez⁩ meshkal.org/journalist-gaz…

Editor’s note: Meshkal is publishing this 1st-hand testimony by photojournalist Montassar Seinkez, a longtime contributor to Meshkal. This is the 1st time Meshkal will be publishing an article of this format & style where the author is directly engaged... meshkal.org/journalist-gaz…

“Vehicles from the eastern Libyan authorities would come, interrogate participants, & detain them without us realizing it. We wouldn’t notice the [participants’] disappearance until some time later,” Iman Hammami said. meshkal.org/sumoud-aid-con…