News Center- Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), a NGO campaigning to end Israel’s blockade of Gaza, announced that one of its ships set sail from Italy on Sunday to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and Irish actor Liam Cunningham are among the 12-person crew of the ship Madleen.

“We are doing this because no matter what odds we are against, we have to keep trying, because the moment we stop trying is when we lose our humanity,” Greta Thunberg told reporters at a news conference before the departure. “Because the moment we stop trying is when we lose our humanity. And, no matter how dangerous this mission is, it’s not even near as dangerous as the silence of the entire world in the face of the livestreamed genocide.”

“On board are volunteers from multiple countries, among them Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan, and climate justice activist Greta Thunberg,” the FreedomFlotilla Coalition said in a press release on Sunday. “The ship is carrying urgently needed supplies for the people of Gaza, including baby formula, flour, rice, diapers, women’s sanitary products, water desalination kits, medical supplies, crutches, and children’s prosthetics.”

This is a peaceful act of civil resistance, the coalition emphasized. “All volunteers and crew aboard Madleen are trained in nonviolence.”