KKE condemns Israeli assault on Gaza solidarity flotilla

In a statement issued today, the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) condemns “the new piratical attack by the terrorist state of Israel against the international solidarity flotilla for Gaza, which placed the lives of hundreds of people in grave danger.”

The KKE notes that “the Greek government must provide specific answers, as the Israeli assault took place off Crete, in international waters and within Greece’s area of responsibility for search and rescue operations.” 

The Communist Party asks whether the government “was aware of and in coordination with its murderous Israeli allies,” and “what actions it took to protect human lives in the face of such a dangerous act, given that, according to reports, the Israelis deliberately left hundreds of people aboard damaged vessels in the open sea.”

According to the KKE, “it is proven that the government’s repeated invocations of ‘freedom of navigation’ are highly selective, as they concern only the profits of Greek shipowners and not the crimes of its strategic allies, who continue to shed the blood of the peoples of Palestine and Lebanon, while at the same time being given a ‘free hand’ to act as the ‘sheriffs’ of the entire Eastern Mediterranean.”

The statement emphasizes that “what is needed now is to strengthen the expression of solidarity by the Greek people and its organized movement with every people that falls victim to imperialist aggression, to demand the termination of the strategic alliance with Israel, the recognition of an independent Palestinian state within the 1967 borders, the closure of US-NATO bases, and the return of Greek troops stationed abroad.”

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