From Al Jazeera English
A group of human rights activists from an international aid flotilla bound for Palestine's Gaza Strip but banned from setting sail for by Greek authorities where ships are hoping to leave from, told the AFP news service on Tuesday that they had occupied the Spanish embassy in Athens.
Thirty mainly Spanish activists had met with their ambassador to ask Madrid to put pressure on Greece to allow them to sail and had "decided to occupy the rooms," one of the protesters, who called himself Santiago, told AFP by telephone.
The occupying group hung a Palestinian flag from the embassy's balcony.
Asked by Al Jazeera how long his crew will wait before giving up their mission for Gaza, Alejandro Fierro, a Spanish flotilla activist in Greece said,
“We will wait no matter how long it takes. We’ve learned patience from the Palestinian people who have been resisting Israeli occupation for 60 years, so we can wait. We are not going to move until our government makes some solution for the Greek government to let us sail away.” AJE
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