🔹 Gaza Was Dying—And the Flotilla Was Never Going to Save It

No ship has docked in Gaza for over 20 years. Even before October 7, Gaza was being strangled by a blockade that cut it off from the sea, from electricity, from clean water, from everything.
• They were forced to rely on Israeli electricity—turned off at will
• Barred from accessing their own waters or filtering their own seawater
• Fishing was barely allowed, and gunboats routinely opened fire
• Eight hours of power a day was considered normal

This is the slow death that Palestinians were living through long before the bombs fell. That’s why lifting the blockade was one of the main demands on 10/07. Because even in “peacetime,” Gaza was under siege.

And into that comes the “Flotilla” — a selfie boat with four bags (100kg) of flour.

Let’s be honest: this was never a serious attempt to break the blockade.
No ship has gotten through in decades. This one wasn’t going to either. It was more of a photo op than an aid mission. A few boxes of supplies wasn’t going to challenge 17 years of starvation, blackout, and isolation.

They weren’t here to break the siege.
They were here to broadcast themselves trying.

Meanwhile, Palestinians are still dying—and not for lack of photo ops.

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⚡️— A source in the resistance security:

A 35-year-old man, A.N., was arrested on suspicion of involvement with enemy-backed mercenary gangs. According to the same source, the aforementioned individual was previously wanted by security forces for the murder of a policeman in June 2013, as well as other security and criminal cases.

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇱🇧 ⁉️ — Initial report of an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon

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⁉️ — An Army Radio correspondent confirms the use of toxic gases in the assassination of martyr Sinwar.

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🇮🇱 📞 🇮🇷 ❗️ — BREAKING The Israeli high command will be holding serious decussions on the Iranian Nuclear Program

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🇮🇱 🇺🇸 ⚡️ — The phone call between Trump and Netanyahu ends.

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🇵🇸 ❗️ — Urgent
Reports of the assassination of two of the entity's leaders in Rafah

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — It happened in Allar, Tulkarm.
Occupation soldiers storm a taxi office to tear up the Palestinian flag, but the owner ignores them.

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1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ 🟢 5️⃣ ❗️— Urgent | In a message received by the Qassam Brigades, the Chief of Staff of the Yemeni Armed Forces | Houthis, Major General Mohammed Al-Ghamari, said:

On the Day of Sacrifice, we renew our pledge that the path of jihad will remain our path.

We affirm that the enemy's fate is defeat, that Palestine will remain in the heart of Sana'a, and that Jerusalem will remain in our faith, our methods, and our compass.

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