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The Freedom Flotilla will sail again
The International Coalition of the Freedom Flotilla has decided to once more sail to Gaza and break the Israeli siege, writes RAMZY BAROUD

WHAT is Gaza to us but an Israeli missile, a rudimentary rocket, a demolished home, an injured child being whisked away by his peers under a hail of bullets? 

On a daily basis, Gaza is conveyed to us as a bloody image or a dramatic video, none of which can truly capture the everyday reality of the Strip — its formidable steadfastness, the everyday acts of resistance and the type of suffering that can never be really understood through a customary glance at a social media post.

At long last, the chief prosecutor of the International Court of Justice (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, has declared her “satisfaction” that “war crimes have been — or are being — committed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.”  

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