in case
they need to apply for a claim. And I have met enough veterans to know that you don't have to engage in a firefight to
endure
the trauma of war. So we're changing the way things are done."
Israeli and Greek officials say a ship carrying aid for Gaza is now heading for Egypt instead, following diplomatic intervention by the Israeli government. They said the ship
charter
ed by a Libyan charity had set sail from Greece to the Egyptian port of el-Arish which is close to Gaza. The head of the charity, Youssef Sawwan, said he still hoped international pressure would persuade Israel to let the vessel
dock
in Gaza itself.
"We are conducting a purely humanitarian mission. Its sole aim is to deliver humanitarian goods - foodstuffs, medications - to the people of Gaza who no one can dispute that they are in urgent needs because they have been under boycott, siege, you name it. They
went through
it because of the Israeli action. We hope that the Israeli authorities would not ban the ship from entering the port of Gaza."
More than a million people have been marching through the Spanish city of Barcelona to support the
autonomous
status of the region of Catalonia. The demonstration was called after the Spanish constitutional court decided there was no legal basis to recognize Catalonia as a nation, and the Catalan language should not
take precedence over
Spanish.