Welcome to Kurt Affairs.

My name is Nathan Robinson.

I am joined today by Tommy Marcus.

You may know him as Quentin Quarantino on Instagram.

He joins us from, as I understand it, the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, where he's on

the Samud Flotilla, headed currently for Gaza.

Tommy, I hoped you could start by telling us a little bit more about

what the flotilla is. What does it consist of? What are you bringing? Where are you going?

Absolutely. So the Global Samud Flotilla has a very simple mission.

We are over 40 boats of people from over 44 countries around the world, activists, actors,

politicians, everyday humanitarians who are fed up watching worldwide in action at the genocide in Gaza and have realized that

if we don't put it into our hands, nobody will. So our overall mission here is to deliver

aid to Gaza. Every one of these boats is carrying aid from food to baby formula to medicine. And

it's a completely peaceful mission. We have no weapons. We are completely defenseless. And

currently location-wise, we are in the Mediterranean Sea, somewhere below Greece, over halfway from Barcelona to Gaza.

We've been at sea for close to three weeks, and we're expecting to reach Gaza sometime in the

next five to seven days.

Now, let's just go into a little more detail about why your mission is so critically important.

At the moment, parts of Gaza are still in a famine.

There are severe restrictions on what could enter.

It's a terribly desperate situation.

I mean, you are basically trying to fulfill the obligation that Israel

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