A-Infos (en) Brazil, CAB: IMMEDIATE FREEDOM FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS HELD BY THE GENOCIDAL STATE OF ISRAEL! (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Last Wednesday, October 1st, naval forces of the genocidal state of 
Israel intercepted vessels from the Global Sumud Flotilla, a mission 
carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of unarmed 
civilians, who came from 44 countries-crossing the sea with food, 
medicine, and solidarity-were captured by the Israeli Navy in 
international waters. This kidnapping of people who do not represent 
armies, but the most basic human life, explores the limits of 
institutional barbarity. The world watches, perplexed, as state violence 
materializes beyond any diplomatic rhetoric.

For over 70 years, the European Zionist entity that calls itself the 
"State of Israel" has imposed the horror of genocide and colonization on 
the Palestinian people, stolen their land, built open-air prisons where 
it tests its weapons by murdering children and destroying hospitals, 
imposed racial and religious segregation, invaded sacred temples, seized 
resources, arrested, kidnapped, and killed Palestinians, subjecting the 
people-especially the working classes-to the most cruel regime of 
apartheid and state terrorism known on the planet today.

The current attacks, explosions, destruction, and murders are neither 
new nor exceptional: this is the routine to which the invader has 
subjected the people of the Gaza Strip and all Palestinian territories 
daily for decades.

Since October 7, 2023, Gaza has been living a living hell. More than 
64,900 deaths and 165,000 injuries were recorded, including civilians 
crushed by bombs, buried under rubble, or victims of hunger and 
malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children. Amid this 
chaos, the bombing of hospitals and civilian shelters, and the denial of 
drinking water, this is an escalation of institutional genocide.

Meanwhile, vessels of the Sumud Global Flotilla-about 50 ships, with 
more than 500 activists on board, from Europe, Latin America, the Middle 
East, and other continents-set sail with the firm intention of breaking 
the blockade and delivering aid to the besieged people. Israel responded 
by intercepting at least 21 vessels, detaining 317 activists-who were 
taken to the port of Ashdod, where their deportation is announced. This 
is already a pattern: at least eight previous flotillas have been 
intercepted in over a decade, in operations that defy maritime and 
humanitarian law. At least 14 Brazilian activists were detained, and one 
remains missing.

Missing Brazilians:

* João Aguiar, aboard the sailboat Mikeno, last contacted at 7:35 p.m. 
(CEST), shortly after an attack with foul-smelling water jets fired 
directly at the crew. The vessel's cameras were damaged and the signal 
was lost.

Kidnapped members of the Brazilian Delegation:

* Thiago Ávila - Alma boat
* Bruno Gilga, Lisiane Proença, Magno Costa, Mariana Conti, and Nicolas 
Calabrese - Sirius boat
* Ariadne Telles and Mansur Peixoto - Adara boat
* Gabriele Tolotti and Mohamad El Kadri - The Spectre boat
* Lucas Gusmão - Yulara boat
* Luizianne Lins - Grand Blue boat
* Miguel de Castro - Catalina boat

It is the duty of the peoples of the world, of the political forces 
fighting against capitalism and colonialism from Latin America, to 
extend their arms and raise their flags high. To neither forget nor 
normalize them, to make Palestinian liberation and popular 
self-determination part of our struggles. Without the freedom of 
Palestinians, there will be no freedom for anyone. We face a system of 
death, but we know that in the face of oppression, there is resistance. 
That people suffer, but they also rise up. International solidarity is 
manifested in mobilizations around the world, and a clamor is emerging 
for an end to this genocide. And, faced with such barbarity perpetrated 
by those who claim to be civilized, we anarchists are outraged. We stand 
in solidarity, but we also resolve to fight for a new world.

NO TO THE GENOCIDE PERPETUATED BY ISRAEL IN GAZA!
IMMEDIATE FREEDOM FOR THE POLITICAL PRISONERS, BRAZILIAN OR FOREIGN, BY 
THE GENOCIDAL STATE OF ISRAEL!

https://cabanarquista.com.br/liberdade-imediata-aos-presos-politicos-br/
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