As Gaza faces over three months of Israeli blockade, a group of 12 activists is sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. The Madleen ship was launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and initially planned to sail from Malta last month, but the group’s ship was damaged in a drone attack. The new mission includes the renowned Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who speaks with Democracy Now! live from the Madleen . “We deem the risk of silence and the risk of inaction to be so much more deadly than this mission,” says Thunberg.

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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! , democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report . I’m Amy Goodman, with Juan González.

As Gaza faces more than three months of a near-to

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