When a convoy of humanitarian aid vessels attempts to break Israel’s brutal and deadly siege of Gaza later this month, three Newfoundlanders will be on it. They’ll be setting sail for Gaza in another attempt to break Israel’s blockade and deliver critically needed medical and humanitarian supplies. In September 2024 The Independent pressed then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Canada’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. There are no weapons of any kind on the boats, there’s just humanitarian aid, food, baby formula, medicine, that kind of thing,” Matthews continued. This rendered Gaza entirely dependent on international aid, and has contributed to the current conditions of famine and starvation there.