Vietnamese activist places rare national spotlight on Gaza’s suffering

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – Earlier this year, Vietnamese social media was overtaken by a name: Tieu Nguyen Bao Ngoc.

The 28-year-old from Vietnam’s largest city, Ho Chi Minh, was said to be the first and only Vietnamese national to have joined the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), which sought to break Israel’s siege of Gaza by delivering aid to the territory by sea.

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