NOTE 🚨: this is in addition to the current Global Sumud Flotilla coalition making its way to Gaza

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) will launch a dedicated boat carrying international journalists and medical professionals to Gaza on October 1, 2025

The boat is scheduled to sail by October 1 and plans to join the other FFC and Thousand Madleens to Gaza boats on their journey.

For nearly two years, Israel has denied foreign journalists entry into Gaza, creating one of the most severe press blackouts in recent history… At the same time, Gaza’s health system has been systematically dismantled under Israel’s siege and bombardment.

In response, the FFC is assembling a boat of journalists and healthcare professionals to:

• Provide the international press an opportunity to report directly from Gaza

• Deliver urgently needed medical expertise and solidarity alongside Gaza’s decimated health workforce.

An interactive map of the progress of the flotilla fleet headed to Gaza to challenge the unlawful Israeli siege on aid to Gaza.

Their safety and success relies on public pressure and alertness. Demand from your country that your citizens be protected and that those around you are made aware. We must break Israel’s policy of systematic starvation.

An international activist flotilla seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza left Tunisia on Saturday, after a stopover in the North African country marked by weather delays and suspected drone attacks.

A global fleet of boats is preparing to set sail for Gaza as part of an international maritime initiative aimed at delivering humanitarian aid to starving people in Gaza.

The first convoy… is scheduled to depart from Spanish ports on August 31, to meet up in Tunisia with a second wave on September 4.

Organisers describe the Global Sumud Flotilla as the largest maritime mission to Gaza, bringing together more than 50 ships and delegations from at least 44 countries.

Collectively, they will form the largest coordinated civilian flotilla in history.

According to the Global Sumud Flotilla website, the coalition comprises a range of people, including organisers, humanitarians, doctors, artists, clergy, lawyers, and seafarers, who are united by a belief in human dignity, the power of nonviolent action, and a single truth: the siege and genocide must end.

Although hundreds will set sail from the organised fleet, tens of thousands of others have registered to participate in the initiative.

In 2008, two boats from the Free Gaza Movement successfully reached Gaza, marking the first breach of Israel’s naval blockade. The movement, founded in 2006 by activists during Israel’s war on Lebanon, went on to launch 31 boats between 2008 and 2016, five of which reached Gaza despite heavy Israeli restrictions.

Since 2010, all flotillas attempting to break the Gaza blockade have been intercepted or attacked by Israel in international waters.

An estimated Twenty-seven ships to set sail for Gaza from multiple ports to break Israel’s siege on the enclave.

This will be activist Greta Thunberg’s second mission, having been taken captive by Israel earlier this year when her ship and fellow crew members were sprayed with illicit chemicals and boarded unlawfully in international waters. The Handala and her crew also suffered a similar fate earlier this summer.

Dozens of people gathered on Saturday at the port of Barcelona where a flotilla will set sail for Gaza on Sunday. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is hoping to break… the naval blockade imposed by Israel along the coast of the Gaza Strip since 2007... (AP video and production by Hernan Munoz)

Additional information:

The Global Sumud Flotilla

The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza: Everything you need to know

Largest flotilla for Gaza hopes to pressure Israel to end blockade

An estimated Twenty-seven ships to set sail for Gaza from multiple ports to break Israel’s siege on the enclave.

This will be activist Greta Thunberg’s second mission, having been taken captive by Israel earlier this year when her ship and fellow crew members were sprayed with illicit chemicals and boarded unlawfully in international waters. The Handala and her crew also suffered a similar fate earlier this summer.

Dozens of people gathered on Saturday at the port of Barcelona where a flotilla will set sail for Gaza on Sunday. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is hoping to break… the naval blockade imposed by Israel along the coast of the Gaza Strip since 2007... (AP video and production by Hernan Munoz)

Additional information:

The Global Sumud Flotilla

The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza: Everything you need to know

Largest flotilla for Gaza hopes to pressure Israel to end blockade

An estimated Twenty-seven ships to set sail for Gaza from multiple ports to break Israel’s siege on the enclave.

This will be activist Greta Thunberg’s second mission, having been taken captive by Israel earlier this year when her ship and fellow crew members were sprayed with illicit chemicals and boarded unlawfully in international waters. The Handala and her crew also suffered a similar fate earlier this summer.

Dozens of people gathered on Saturday at the port of Barcelona where a flotilla will set sail for Gaza on Sunday. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is hoping to break… the naval blockade imposed by Israel along the coast of the Gaza Strip since 2007... (AP video and production by Hernan Munoz)

Additional information:

The Global Sumud Flotilla

The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza: Everything you need to know

Largest flotilla for Gaza hopes to pressure Israel to end blockade

“We’re talking really for the first time about a structural declining trend in China’s emissions,” he [Lauri Myllyvirta] said…

“This is a moment of global significance, offering a rare glimmer of hope in an otherwise bleak climate landscape,” he wrote in an email response. It also shows that a country can cut emissions while still growing economically, he [Li Shuo] said.

But Li cautioned that China’s heavy reliance on coal remains a serious threat... “There’s still a long road ahead,” he said.

In an area that is largely desert, the massive solar project has wrought a surprising change on the landscape. The panels act as windbreaks to reduce dust and sand and slow soil evaporation, giving vegetation a foothold. Thousands of sheep, dubbed “photovoltaic sheep,” graze happily on the scrubby plants.

“In terms of production, enterprises generate electricity on the top level, and in terms of ecology, grass grows at the bottom under the solar panels, and villagers can herd sheep in between,” he said.

Like many of China’s solar and wind farms, it was built in the relatively sparsely populated west. A major challenge is getting electricity to the population centers and factories in China’s east…

“This is an issue that the policymakers have recognized and are trying to manage, but it does require big changes to the way coal-fired power plants operate and big changes to the way the transmission network operates,” he said. “So it’s no small task.”

Communications have been restored and the Freedom Flotilla ship Handala remains en route and on mission to challenge the blockade of Gaza. 19 Human Rights Defenders and 2 Journalists from 12 countries are on board.

Communications have been restored and the Freedom Flotilla ship Handala remains en route and on mission to challenge the blockade of Gaza. 19 Human Rights Defenders and 2 Journalists from 12 countries are on board.

Communications have been restored and the Freedom Flotilla ship Handala remains en route and on mission to challenge the blockade of Gaza. 19 Human Rights Defenders and 2 Journalists from 12 countries are on board.

Reminder 🚨: 19 International Human Rights defenders and 2 Journalists from 12 different countries set sail on the Handala Freedom Flotilla on Sunday 20 July on a bold mission to challenge Israel’s illegal and inhumane blockade of the Palestinian people in Gaza.

They currently remain en route (as of July 25, 2025) and on mission. Communications have been restored after drone fly-bys caused concern of those onboard and contact was temporarily lost.

The Handala, now at sea, carries life-saving humanitarian aid and a direct political message: the blockade must end.

Human Rights Defenders on Board:

Christian Smalls (United States 🇺🇸) – Founder of the Amazon Labor Union

Huwaida Arraf (Palestine/United States 🇵🇸🇺🇸) – Human rights attorney, Freedom Flotilla Coalition steering committee member

Emma Fourreau (France/Sweden 🇫🇷🇸🇪) – Member of the European Parliament and human rights activist

Gabrielle Cathala (France 🇫🇷) – Parliamentarian and former humanitarian worker

Dr. Frank Romano (France/United States 🇫🇷🇺🇸) – International lawyer and actor

Robert Martin (Australia 🇦🇺) – Human rights activist

Jacob Berger (United States 🇺🇸) – Jewish-American activist and content creator

Bob Suberi (United States 🇺🇸) – Jewish U.S. war veteran

Antonio Mazzeo (Italy 🇮🇹) – Teacher, peace researcher, and journalist

Santiago González Vallejo (Spain 🇪🇸) – Economist and human rights activist

Sergio Toribio (Spain 🇪🇸) – Engineer and environmental activist

Justine Kempf (France 🇫🇷) – Nurse with Médecins du Monde

Ange Sahuquet (France 🇫🇷) – Engineer and human rights activist

Antonio La Picirella (Italy 🇮🇹) – Climate and social justice organizer

Braedon Peluso (United States 🇺🇸) – Seasoned sailor and direct action activist

Chloé Fiona Ludden (United Kingdom/France 🇬🇧🇫🇷) – Former United Nations staff member and scientist

Hatem Aouini (Tunisia 🇹🇳) – Trade unionist and internationalist activist

Tania “Tan” Safi (Australia 🇦🇺) – Journalist and organizer born to Lebanese refugees

Vigdis Bjorvand (Norway 🇳🇴) 70-year-old activist with an unwavering commitment to justice spanning nearly five decades

Journalists on Board:

**Mohamed El Bakkali **(Morocco 🇲🇦) – Senior journalist with Al Jazeera, based in Paris

**Waad Al Musa **(Iraq/United States 🇮🇶🇺🇸) – Cameraman and field reporter with Al Jazeera

“The suspects were identified and arrested… at the Tomorrowland festival… they were formally interrogated and released. The Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office has confirmed that a criminal investigation is now underway.”

This is a great step forward in the realm of International Law and holding war criminals accountable for their crimes in real time. A “reservists organization” is intending to pay for the accuseds’ legal fees, signaling this is indeed moving forward in the justice system.

From my understanding, the Israelis in question are not barred from travel, but the fact that this is entering court systems in Europe is an unprecedented step forward toward accountability for the atrocities being administered daily in Gaza by Israeli forces and their global network of enablers.

I just want to commend The Hind Rajab Foundation and the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) and thank all of their hard-working volunteers seeking Justice and Dignity for the Palestinian people. I hope to see this movement spread beyond Brazil and Belgium and upward towards the seats of power that are enabling and partaking actively in the Palestinian Holocaust.

**No one big or small should ever feel protected committing atrocities. **

Israeli Times: Canada’s Probe is making War Criminals Uneasy

AP News article

JNS article