Meanwhile, Italian medical charity Emergency warns the situation in Gaza ‘resembles hell’
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The Civil Fleet || THE ACTIVIST-LED mission attempting to sail to Gaza with humanitarian aid set off for Turkey today, eight days after the Israeli military kidnapped some of its members in a controversial raid in international waters off the coast of Greece.
The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), now a collection of about 57 mostly small sailing ships, was forced to stop and take stock on the Greek island of Crete following the Israeli raid on its boat late in the evening of April 30.
During the raid, about 180 members were taken to an Israeli ship, where, GSF said, many of them were subjected to beatings and torture before all but two of them were handed over to the Greek authorities.
Saif Abukeshek (a Spanish and Palestinian citizen) and Thiago Avila (from Brazil) were taken to Israel where they have been held in detention in an Israeli prison on trumped-up terrorism charges.
“Saif and Thiago are both being subjected to an unlawful and politically motivated detention marked by threats, violent treatment, intimidation, and conditions that place their lives in danger,” GSF warned on Thursday.
“The international community must understand the gravity of this moment. Israel is holding a Palestinian activist [Mr Abukeshek] seized in international waters without charge, threatening his children and family, psychologically tormenting him during interrogations, and allowing his health to deteriorate during a dry hunger strike.”
Today’s departure from Crete was not just a logistical milestone, GSF said, but “a profound statement of persistence.”
“Despite the illegal abduction of our comrades, the psychological warfare of the occupation, and the looming presence of military surveillance and aggression, the fleet remains intact, and the goal remains the same: to stand alongside the Palestinian people in their pursuit of freedom and fundamental rights.
“As we press forward, the GSF honours the indelible mark left by Greenpeace and the crew of the Arctic Sunrise, who depart the mission today to answer the call of their next global campaign.
“Their engineers and mechanics were integral to this fleet, refusing to let the beauty of solidarity be stalled by exhaustion or external interference.””
“While the Arctic Sunrise turns toward new horizons, the steadfastness they helped build remains with us.
“We sail on with Open Arms, carrying the weight of nearly 80 years of Palestinian struggle and the immediate, urgent need to end israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.”
Meanwhile, in Gaza, conditions for those who have survived Israel’s genocidal assault have worsened in recent weeks.
Emergency, an Italian medical charity, warned on Thursday that sanitation and hygiene conditions in the Gaza Strip are at an all-time low.
It said rodents, insects, and parasites are a nightmare for those surviving in tent cities, which are increasingly overcrowded and lack basic infrastructure.
“It’s impossible not to notice this new plague: rats are everywhere, in the streets, in makeshift shelters, often improvised, next to piles of garbage that are impossible to dispose of. They literally coexist with the Gazan population,” said Irdi Memaj, one of Emergency’s doctors in Gaza.
“The collapse of sewage systems and the accumulation of waste create fertile ground for the spread of diseases such as scabies, lice, and leptospirosis, a bacterial blood infection transmitted through direct contact with the urine or excrement of infected rodents, or with already contaminated soil and water.
“We’re seeing up to 2,500 patients a week, treating around 1,000 patients, mostly pregnant women and children.
“Families are squeezed into tents, suffering from recurring and difficult-to-treat infections, surrounded by open-air landfills.
“If the epidemics were to worsen, without medicines to combat them, the consequences could be devastating. A situation that, witnessed every day on the ground, resembles hell.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJFNVhY85GY
Did I ever tell you about the man who taught his asshole to talk? His whole abdomen would move up and down you dig farting out the words. It was unlike anything I ever heard.
This ass talk had sort of a gut frequency. It hit you right down there like you gotta go. You know when the old colon gives you the elbow and it feels sorta cold inside, and you know all you have to do is turn loose? Well this talking hit you right down there, a bubbly, thick stagnant sound, a sound you could smell.
This man worked for a carnival you dig, and to start with it was like a novelty ventriliquist act. Real funny, too, at first. He had a number he called “The Better ‘Ole” that was a scream, I tell you. I forget most of it but it was clever. Like, “Oh I say, are you still down there, old thing?”
“Nah I had to go relieve myself.”
After a while the ass start talking on its own. He would go in without anything prepared and his ass would ad-lib and toss the gags back at him every time.
Then it developed sort of teeth-like little raspy in-curving hooks and started eating. He thought this was cute at first and built an act around it, but the asshole would eat its way through his pants and start talking on the street, shouting out it wanted equal rights. It would get drunk, too, and have crying jags nobody loved it and it wanted to be kissed same as any other mouth. Finally it talked all the time day and night, you could hear him for blocks screaming at it to shut up, and beating it with his fist, and sticking candles up it, but nothing did any good and the asshole said to him: “It’s you who will shut up in the end. Not me. Because we dont need you around here any more. I can talk and eat and shit.”
After that he began waking up in the morning with a transparent jelly like a tadpole’s tail all over his mouth. This jelly was what the scientists call un-D.T., Undifferentiated Tissue, which can grow into any kind of flesh on the human body. He would tear it off his mouth and the pieces would stick to his hands like burning gasoline jelly and grow there, grow anywhere on him a glob of it fell. So finally his mouth sealed over, and the whole head would have have amputated spontaneous — (did you know there is a condition occurs in parts of Africa and only among Negroes where the little toe amputates spontaneously?) — except for the eyes you dig. Thats one thing the asshole couldn’t do was see. It needed the eyes. But nerve connections were blocked and infiltrated and atrophied so the brain couldn’t give orders any more. It was trapped in the skull, sealed off. For a while you could see the silent, helpless suffering of the brain behind the eyes, then finally the brain must have died, because the eyes went out, and there was no more feeling in them than a crab’s eyes on the end of a stalk.
William S. Burroughs
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