The Greek government is violating International Law to aid and abet the Netanyahu government’s genocidal project.

Just now, I spoke to the crew of ‘Family’, the main vessel of the Global Sumud Flotilla, that is currently sailing toward Gaza not far from Crete’s southern shores. As is now well established, during the night of September 23, these vessels were attacked by a swarm of drones with explosives and CS gas.

Earlier today, the crew of ‘Family’ managed to communicate with the Greek Coastguard to request (a) help to repair the damage done to their vessels by the drone attack, and (b) protection from further attacks while they are sailing through Greece’s SAR (Search & Rescue Area).

Remarkably, nauseatingly to be precise, the Greek Coastguard turned both requests down!

Such is the determination of the Greek government to aid and abet Israel’s genocide in Gaza and, more generally, its ethnic cleansing of Palestine, that the Greek authorities took the step of refusing assistance that the Law of the Sea obliges them to provide to anyone sailing through a nation’s SAR – a stark reminder of how readily, in a bid to satisfy Netanyahu, the Greek government has forfeited not only its responsibilities but also its sovereignty. Under the Mitsotakis government, a long process by which Greece has become a satellite of the last Apartheid State is now complete.

But this is not all. The Greek authorities’ complicity seems to extend well beyond their refusal to lend support to the Global Sumud Flotilla. At the time of the attack on flotilla, during the night of September 23, a Beechcraft King Air 350 spy plane took off from the US Airforce Souda base – located in northwestern Crete – and flew over Crete in a southern direction. The aircraft belongs to the US leasing company Metrea Special Aerospace ISR and, according to available information, arrived in Crete on 16th August from Belgium. According to Matt Kennard, a British journalist, the same aircraft was also used to monitor Gaza and provide vital data to the Israeli IDF from the British base in Cyprus.

Meanwhile, on the evening of Wednesday, September 24, while the flotilla were sailing off the southern coast of Crete, within Greek territorial waters, a drone that took off from Tympaki airbase appeared to be hovering above them, raising renewed concerns about the orders its operator on the ground had received.

One thing is clear from all of the above: Through a mixture of omission and commission, the Greek government is violating International Law to aid and abet the Netanyahu government. Our party, MeRA25, will fight this government on the streets, in the workplaces, across a country – Greece – which refuses to be counted as complicit with Israel’s genocide.

Do you want to be informed of DiEM25's actions? Sign up here