{"id":2231628,"date":"2024-04-27T16:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T20:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/humanitarian-aid-ships-from-turkey-denied-passage-to-gaza\/"},"modified":"2024-04-27T16:05:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T20:05:31","slug":"humanitarian-aid-ships-from-turkey-denied-passage-to-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/humanitarian-aid-ships-from-turkey-denied-passage-to-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey&#8217;s humanitarian ships refused entry to Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhumanitarian-aid-ships-from-turkey-denied-passage-to-gaza%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2231628&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Humanitarian ships from\u200c Turkey to Gaza were blocked from traveling by an international \u2063shipping\u200b authority. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition faced restrictions from the Guinea Bissau International Ships Registry, halting their mission to deliver aid amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas. The move was deemed political, with demands for detailed ship information unprecedented in flagging regulations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Humanitarian supply ships headed from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/turkey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Turkey\">Turkey<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Gaza\">Gaza<\/a> have been <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomflotilla.org\/2024\/04\/27\/press-conference-under-israeli-pressure-guinea-bissau-moves-to-withdraw-flotilla-flags\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"denied\">denied<\/a> the right to sail by an international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/shipping\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"shipping\">shipping<\/a> body.<\/p>\n<p>The organization Freedom Flotilla Coalition said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-axe-amendment-to-hold-taxpayer-dollars-from-shutdown-schools\/\" title=\"Senate Democrats Axe Amendment To Hold Taxpayer Dollars From Shutdown Schools\">press statement<\/a> Saturday afternoon the group organizing for support to Gaza was contacted by the Guinea Bissau International Ships Registry for an inspection of their lead ship. <\/p>\n<p>The inspector for GBISR conducted the inspection on Friday, and the organization withdrew consent for the legal registration and flag use for the two FFC ships, citing the organization\u2019s planned mission to Gaza amid the war between Hamas and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Israel\">Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout a flag, we cannot sail. But this is not the end,\u201d wrote the FFC. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Workers prepare a ship of Freedom Flotilla Coalition while it anchors at Tuzla seaport in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, April 19, 2024. Activists and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-dominion-machines-breaking-down-in-several-georgia-gop-precincts-voters-told-workers-will-scan-ballots-later\/\" title=\"Reports: Dominion Machines Breaking Down in Several Georgia GOP Precincts; Voters Told Workers Will Scan Ballots Later\">aid workers<\/a> from numerous international aid NGO\u2019s are gearing up for another attempt to break through the Israeli blockade and deliver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-faces-mounting-pressure-to-act-in-ethiopian-conflict\/\" title=\"Biden Administration Faces Mounting Pressure to Act in Ethiopian Conflict\">humanitarian aid<\/a> to Gaza. (AP Photo\/Khalil Hamra)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>FFC highlights this as \u201ca blatantly political move,\u201d noting the GBISR\u2019s requests for a complete manifest of the ships and a letter explicitly approving the transportation of humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally, national flagging authorities concern themselves only with safety and related standards on vessels bearing their flag, and are not concerned with the destination, route, cargo manifests or the nature of a specific voyage,\u201d wrote the FFC in its press statement. \u201cJust like when you register your car, the authorities don\u2019t require you to detail to them every place you are going to go with the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FFC was <a href=\"https:\/\/freedomflotilla.org\/who-we-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"created \">created <\/a>in 2010, consisting of a partnership between 14 pro-Palestinian organizations worldwide with the mission of acting against the Israeli blockade of the religion with \u201cprinciples of non-violence and non-violent resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organization decried the GBISR as having \u201callowed itself to become complicit in Israel\u2019s deliberate starvation, illegal siege and genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael is only allowed to get away with this because we have an international order where law does not apply equally, where people are not valued the same, and where might equals right,\u201d wrote the group.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Israeli military naval vessels patrol off the southern Israeli port city of Ashdod, Sunday, July 29, 2018. Israel\u2019s military said it intercepted a ship carrying activists en route to Gaza in the latest attempt to break a blockade on the coastal territory. It said the ship is being taken Sunday to an Israeli port. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition said there are activists from 14 countries on the ship carrying medical aid for Gaza. (AP Photo\/Ariel Schalit)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The USAID published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/news-information\/press-releases\/mar-18-2024-famine-imminent-northern-gaza\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"memo\">memo<\/a> in March saying that famine is \u201cimminent\u201d in northern Gaza by May and that there are \u201ccatastrophic levels of hunger and malnutrition\u201d in the region.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. agency last week <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/4608168-un-food-program-agrees-assist-gaza-aid-distribution-sea-route\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"confirmed\">confirmed<\/a> to reporters they are working with the United Nations\u2019s World Food Program to get humanitarian aid through the Israeli blockade to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a complex operation that requires coordination between many partners, and our conversations are ongoing,\u201d said the USAID spokesperson. \u201cThroughout Gaza, the safety and security of humanitarian actors is critical to the delivery of assistance, and we continue to advocate for measures that will give humanitarians greater assurances.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humanitarian ships bound for Gaza from Turkey were barred from sailing by an international shipping body. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition revealed in a Saturday statement that the group supporting Gaza was approached by the Guinea Bissau International Ships Registry for an inspection of their main vessel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2666,"featured_media":2231629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24110494199793.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/AP24110494199793.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2666"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2231629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}