, Sept. 28 -- winning eminent Bangladeshi photographer and Drik Managing Director Shahidul Alam left Dhaka for Italy on Sunday to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition's Global Media Flotilla en route to Gaza.

The media flotilla, part of the international coalition's effort to break the information and media blackout on Gaza, aims to show solidarity with the besieged Palestinian people.

Alam is participating as the first Bangladeshi to join the coalition.

Speaking at a press conference at DrikPath Bhaban in Panthapath on Saturday, Shahidul Alam said, "If we are defeated, humanity will be defeated. I may be going as the first person from Bangladesh, but I am carrying the love of all Bangladeshi people with me."

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