Tiago Avila, I am so thrilled to be joined now by one of the members of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition who's on board the Madeline halfway to Gaza.

Tiago, thank you so much for joining me on the Empire Files. This is amazing.

It's a pleasure to be here with you. Thank you for your amazing work.

And we're here on board the Medellin.

The sun is about to set.

Beautiful day at sea in the Mediterranean.

It's day four. This is one month after Israeli drones bombed the first humanitarian aid vessel that you were supposed to join

as well as dozens of other humanitarians, Tiago. This is one month ago. Undeterred, you have

organized relentlessly and decided to do it again to launch another flotilla. This is one month later.

You are halfway to Gaza right now, full transparency, all eyes on deck, the Madeline.

Talk about who is with you and what you guys are carrying.

Because we know what the U.S. government's saying.

We know what Israeli officials are saying.

They're going to say that you're going to coordinate with Hamas and bringing weapons on board

and whatever they want to say to justify the

brutality and aggression against selfless humanitarian, Tiago. So talk about what you have on board

and who's on this mission with you?

It's very important for us to be able to talk about this because they've been saying this lies

for all of the 17 years since the Freedom Flotilla mission started.

Even before they had the name of Freedom of Lottila, before it was the Free Gaza movement.

So the blockade starts in 2007, 2008 the first mission starts.

Every single one of them they said.

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