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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">2nd intl. aid fleet heads for
Gaza after Israel\u2019s globally condemned interception of Sumud
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<font size="1">Undated picture shows a vessel belonging
to the Global Sumud Flotilla that has been intercepted
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<p><strong>Another international humanitarian fleet has
set sail to break the Israeli regime\u2019s near-total
siege of Gaza after Tel Aviv intercepted the Global
Sumud Flotilla, a monumental 50-strong convoy
seeking to deliver aid to the coastal sliver\u2019s
war-stricken and starving Palestinians.</strong></p>
<p>The 10-boat fleet headed out of the Italian and
Spanish coastlines between September 25 and 27, Drop
Site News, an American investigative outlet, reported
on Friday.</p>
<p>The fleet, it said, has been organized by the Freedom
Flotilla Coalition (FFC), which has been organizing
such Gaza-bound convoys since 2010, with the
grassroots Thousand Madleens to Gaza (TMTG), named
after a Gaza-bound aid ship that was targeted by the
regime in June.</p>
<p>It carries nearly 70 people from more than 20
countries, including parliamentarians and elected
officials from Ireland, Belgium, Spain, Denmark,
France, and the United States.</p>
<p><strong>Additional vessel challenges Israel\u2019s press
blackout </strong></p>
<p>On its way, the fleet was joined by the Conscience, a
massive vessel that departed from Otranto, Italy on
September 30 carrying 80 people, including
international journalists, medics, and several
Palestinian doctors, who volunteered in Gaza.</p>
<p>\u201cFor nearly two years, the illegal Israeli occupation
has blocked international journalists from entering
Gaza, creating one of the most dangerous press
blackouts in modern history,\u201d the FFC said. \u201cThis boat
is our challenge to that silence.\u201d</p>
<p>The Friday report came after the regime intercepted
the last vessel that had joined the Global Sumud
Flotilla, which had set sail from Barcelona late last
month on a mission to challenge what human rights
groups have condemned as one of the harshest and most
inhumane blockades in the world.</p>
<p>Described as the largest maritime effort of its kind
in decades, the flotilla had brought together
delegations representing at least 44 different
countries.</p>
<p>The interception spree was met with far-and-wide
global condemnation.</p>
<p><strong>Israeli minister calls GSF\u2019s activists
\u2018terrorists\u2019</strong></p>
<p>Also on Friday, Drop Site News cited Adala, a rights
group based in the occupied city of Haifa, as
enumerating the violations committed by the regime
against the GSF\u2019s activists.</p>
<p>After being seized from international waters, the
participants \u201cwere forced to kneel with their hands
zip-tied for at least five hours, after some
participants chanted Free Palestine,\u201d the group
reported.</p>
<p>At the occupied port of Ashdod, at least 331 of the
activists faced hearings before Israeli immigration
authorities, it added.</p>
<p>Adalah condemned the regime\u2019s handling of the
detainees as unlawful, humiliating, and systematically
abusive.</p>
<p>It noted that far-right Israeli minister Itamar
Ben-Gvir would disrupt lawyer visits, while
participants were being filmed.</p>
<p>The outlet posted a video on X, former Twitter,
showing Ben-Gvir addressing the detainees in a
degrading manner and calling them \u201cthe flotilla
terrorists.\u201d</p>
<p>Detainees were denied water, medicine, and legal
access, with lawyers being excluded from hearings that
began without representation, the group said.</p>
<p>Transferred from Ashdod to the regime\u2019s Ktzi\u2019ot
Prison afterwards, participants reported threats and
harassment.</p>
<p>Adalah stressed that the entire process violated the
international law, calling the naval interception an
abduction and the blockade itself an illegal act of
collective punishment and genocide.</p>
<p>It demanded the activists\u2019 release, accountability on
the part of the regime, and return of confiscated
belongings and aid supplies.</p>
<p>The developments took place as the regime keeps using
the siege to weaponize starvation amid its October
2023-present war of genocide on the Gaza Strip.</p>
<p>The war has seen Tel Aviv use a combination of
bombings and starvation to kill nearly 66,300
Palestinians, mostly women and children.</p>
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