Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments | Owen Jones

Over the weekend , Britain used its navy to deliver much-needed food, baby formula and medical supplies to the Gaza Strip’s ports.

Instead, it was left to activists on the Madleen , including Greta Thunberg , to make a symbolic attempt to break the blockade of aid and raise awareness of a looming “starvation crisis” In the early hours of Monday morning , the ship was boarded by Israeli soldiers, allegedly in international waters, and the crew were taken to Israeli ports.

Israel has criminalised Unrwa , Gaza ’s main humanitarian agency, and imposed a total blockade.

It then replaced the existing humanitarian structures with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation .

Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich declared that Israel will expel all surviving Palestinians from Gaza .

Not only does the GHF provide far too little and often unusable aid, but it also set up aid points in the south to deliberately empty the north.