Greta Thunberg, Swedish activist aboard Global Sumud Flotilla
"The messages we have to Palestinians and Gaza are many. First, that I'm absolutely disgusted and appalled to live in a world where our people in power every day are betraying Palestinians and how there are so many people who can seemingly just accept the extreme injustice and the mass slaughtering of people without doing anything. So, for that I am heartbroken, and this is not about me or my feelings at all, but I'm heartbroken to live in that world. What is happening now, for example in Gaza City, should not come as a surprise because Israel have been very clear from the beginning that this is their intent. They have genocidal intent that they want to take over the Gaza Strip, which is such a serious war crime. And the world has not listened.
Right now people are more and more waking up, but at what cost?
What is happening is of course an attack on Palestinians, the Palestinian identity and the Palestinian nation and all the countless of people whose suffering is being reduced to numbers and UN resolutions. This is also an attack on humanity, on international law, on every sense of humanity we have left and that is a huge, huge risk. Of course, all right, risk is not the right word. It is a threat to everything we hold dear.
What we are claiming to do is to act in line with international law. We are hearing the calls from Palestinians who are urging the people of the world to step up, to end our complicity. And we are doing a very small part of that, the bare minimum, to act to uphold international law, human rights. Any risk we could be subjected to is of course nothing to what Palestinians are risking every day just trying to survive. For example, the extremely brave Palestinian journalists who we are all in debt for them reporting about what is happening on the ground. They risk their lives every single day to tell the story. And the biggest risk is how we have allowed fascism and racism to escalate to such an extent that history keeps repeating itself."
Democracy Now, https://youtu.be/79DFojySReQ?si=IwiA12i9V_pp2P-E