Global Sumud Flotilla now:
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ALERT
The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) confirms that one of the main boats, known as the “Family Boat” - that was carrying GSF Steering Committee members, was struck by what is suspected to be a drone. The boat was under the Portuguese flag and all passengers and crew are safe. An investigation is currently underway and when more information is available it will be released immediately.

Acts of aggression aimed at intimidating and derailing our mission will not deter us. Our peaceful mission to break the siege on Gaza and stand in solidarity with its people continues with determination and resolve.
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More on from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
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Footage from another boat of our Flotilla shows the exact moment the Family Boat was struck from above.
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For context (apart from everything earlier in this thread):
In the current version of the Reuters article (linked to earlier):
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Tunisian authorities said the explosion originated inside the vessel, and Tunisia's National Guard spokesperson told Mosaique FM radio that reports of a drone attack on the flotilla "have no basis in truth".
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But in the video you can see that their statement can not be accurate, since an object apparently on fire strikes the boat straight from above.

Global Sumud Flotilla:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA TO HOLD
PRESS CONFERENCE ON DRONE ATTACK

Tunis, Tunisia – The Global Sumud Flotilla will hold a press conference today to update media and the public on the drone attack sustained by one of its boats, the Family Boat. While all participants are safe, details about the attack remain limited.
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Global Sumud Flotilla, ~25 minutes ago:
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A drone strike hit one of our lead boats last night, but every crew member is safe. In this video, we analyze the events as they happened: compiling CCTV footage and declarations from witnesses and organizers throughout the night.

We will not be deterred. We will not be stopped. Together, we will sail to Gaza and break the siege.
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Global Sumud Flotilla 1 minute ago:
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ALERT

Another boat has been hit in a suspected drone attack. No injuries reported. Updates to follow soon.
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Global Sumud Flotilla now (basically same statements as moments ago):
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Press Statement – September 9, 2025
For Immediate Release

The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) confirms that on September 9, another boat in our fleet - the “Alma” - was attacked by a drone as it was docked in Tunisian waters. The boat, sailing under the British flag, sustained fire damage on its top deck. The fire has since been extinguished, and all passengers and crew are safe. An investigation is currently underway and when more information is available it will be released immediately.

This marks the second such attack in two days. These repeat attacks come during intensified Israeli aggression on Palestinians in Gaza, and are an orchestrated attempt to distract and derail our mission. The Global Sumud Flotilla continues undeterred. Our peaceful voyage to break Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza and stand in unwavering solidarity with its people presses forward with determination and resolve.

For updates, please follow our official channels.
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I add, the official channels are at: linktr.ee/globalsumudflotilla

Greta Thunberg has left the Global Sumud Flotilla's Steering Committe, reports Omni (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omni_(we…) citing Il Manifesto,
while the civilian humanitarian aid flotilla is currently en route to break Israel's illegal siege against the Palestinian People in the Gaza Strip of Palestine.

They go on to report that (in my translation)
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According to the [news]paper she is of the opinion that the organization's communications focus too much on their own internal matters, and too little on what she calls the genocide in Gaza.

”We all have a function: Mine will not be in the Steering Committe, buy as an organizer and participant”, she says in a statement.
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Now also 'Spain's PM says he will send warship to protect Gaza aid flotilla
[...]
"Tomorrow we will dispatch a naval vessel from Cartagena with all necessary resources in case it was necessary to assist the flotilla and carry out a rescue operation."'
reuters.com/world/middle-east/…

You know... the point of the Global Sumud Flotilla, Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Ship to Gaza, etc was never the flotilla events themselves, but to end the illegal siege, which you ruling politicians could quite easily have ended any time during the past decades.
You don't have to put these civilian heroes in the position of moral imperative so that they take your responsibility to e.g. act to end and prevent genocide.
You can just actually do the jobs you have taken upon yourselves instead, which would achieve the flotillas' actual goal – not the delivery of one shipment of aid, but to end the siege itself.
Do it now.

Global Sumud Flotilla, ~20 minutes ago:
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Tracker Update!

As we get closer to Gaza and to the 'high risk' zone, we will be updating you regularly so you can be on high alert with us.

Witness is protection.

We need your eyes on the Flotilla and your pressure on international institutions to keep everyone safe and to help us achieve our goal of breaking the siege and opening a humanitarian corridor.
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Global Sumud Flotilla:
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Stay alert!!

We are on a high-alert as our Flotilla reaches 10 nautical miles from the high risk zone.
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Global Sumud Flotilla, ~30 minutes ago:
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UPDATE
OCTOBER 1ST - 05:30 GMT+3

Unidentified vessels approached a number of boats in the Flotilla, some with their lights off. Participants applied security protocols in preparation for an interception. The vessels have now left the Flotilla.

We continue to sail to Gaza approaching the 120 nautical mile mark, near the area where previous flotillas have been intercepted and/or attacked.
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Global Sumud Flotilla:
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We’ve detected 20+ unidentified vessels on our radar, just 3 nautical miles ahead of our fleet.

This may signal a potential naval blockade. But let it be clear: we will not be intimidated by threats, harassment, or efforts to protect Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza.

Updates will follow
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Global Sumud Flotilla:
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HIGH ALERT — OCTOBER 1ST - 21:34 GMT+3
Our vessels are being illegaly Intercepted.

Cameras are offline and vessels have been boarded by military personnel. We are actively working to confirm the safety and status of all participants on board
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Israel's navy can not claim that they were not informed prior to their interception aggression.

Global Sumud Flotilla:
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Israel Issues Threats

Thiago Affirms: Our Mission Is Peaceful and Protected by Law

The Israeli occupation government attempted to intimidate our flotilla over radio, threatening to stop and confiscate our vessels if we continued toward Gaza.

Thiago responded firmly: we are a peaceful, nonviolent humanitarian mission. Our journey is legal under international law, and any attempt to obstruct us is not.

“We carry food, aid, water filters, crutches, baby formula, to people you have been starving to death.”

The world is watching, and those responsible for hostile actions will be held accountable.
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Global Sumud Flotilla:
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🚨 SOUND THE ALARM – INTERCEPTION 🚨
BREAKING: On Oct 1, 2025
Israeli naval forces illegally intercepted and boarded the Global Sumud Flotilla’s vessel Sirius along with other boats in international waters.

Live-streams and communications have been cut. The status of participants and crew remains unconfirmed.

This is an illegal attack on unarmed humanitarians. We call on governments and international institutions to demand their immediate safety and release.
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Global Sumud Flotilla:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BREAKING: GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA INTERCEPTED BY ISRAELI NAVAL FORCES

"Israeli military vessels intercept Gaza aid flotilla some 75 miles off the coast"
theguardian.com/world/live/202…

"Social media posts say that the Sirius-Haifa boat, forming part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was intercepted by the Israeli military."
theguardian.com/world/live/202…

'Italy foreign minister: [...] "The boarding was planned, we are talking about it ... with Minister Saar so that there would be no violent actions on the part of the Tel Aviv armed forces, and this has been assured to me,"'
reuters.com/world/middle-east/…
You... actually collaborated to maintain the illegal siege against the civilian populace as a part of Israel's genocidal warfare. Go to The Hague with you, "Sir".

Gaza aid flotilla: Israel intercepts vessels but one ship reported to have got through blockade – as it happened

One boat, the Mikeno, reported to have escaped the maritime blockade and to have stopped inside Palestinian territorial waters

^{José Olivares (The Guardian)}

Global Sumud Flotilla:
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The Israeli occupation navy forces are using active agression on the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Florida vessel has been deliberately rammed at sea. Yulara, Meteque and others have been targeted with water cannons.

These illegal attacks on unarmed humanitarian ships is a war crime.

All passengers on board are unharmed.
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Global Sumud Flotilla, 5 min ago:
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🚨 SOUND THE ALARM – INTERCEPTION 🚨
BREAKING: On Oct 1, 2025
Israeli naval forces illegally intercepted and boarded the Global Sumud Flotilla’s vessel Adara along with other boats in international waters.

Live-streams and communications have been cut. The status of participants and crew remains unconfirmed.

This is an illegal attack on unarmed humanitarians. We call on governments and international institutions to demand their immediate safety and release.
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Reuters now:
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The [Global Sumud] Flotilla says Israel is trying to sink one of its boats

The flotilla said that Israel was trying to sink one of its boats, the Maria Cristina.

"The Israeli occupation navy is currently attempting to sink the Maria Cristina boat," Global Samud Flotilla said on its Facebook media page. "Israel is committing a full-fledged war crime."

Reuters was not able to confirm the account independently. Israel made no immediate statement about the claim.
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reuters.com/world/middle-east/…?

Reuters' webpage is too incompetently designed, so it is impossible to link to a specific entry on the live-reports page.

Oh. I noticed that somehow I broke my thread on the Global Sumud Flotilla on September 9th, by attaching one of the toots to the wrong toot then continuing on from there and we can't mend broken threads any other way than by me now telling you that the first part of the thread on the Global Sumud Flotilla ends here:
todon.eu/@b9AcE/11517120011290…

I will continue here.

Latest from Global Sumud FLotilla:
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UPDATE – OCTOBER 2ND, 3:20 GMT+3

30 boats still sailing strong on their way to Gaza, just 46 nautical miles away, despite the incessant aggressions from the Israeli occupation navy.
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Global Sumud Flotilla:
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Update from Adalah — Global Sumud Flotilla, Lawyers Denied Access to Participants

2 October 2025 – 14:45 GMT+3
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Note: The mentioned Adalah is extremely likely the Adalah human rights organization and legal center (adalah.org/en) who defended the most recent Freedom Flotilla.

Global Sumud Flotilla:
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After visiting the Global Sumud Flotilla captives in one of the most notorious Israeli prisons, Adalah Legal Counsel Lubna Tuma describes their mistreatment and denial of basic rights, treatment that reflects the wider system of abuse faced by Palestinian prisoners.

She reports that:
• Hearings began without legal counsel
• Activists were forced into painful positions for hours
• Food, water, and medical care were denied
• Women, especially those wearing hijab, were targeted with harsher treatment

This is not an isolated case, it exposes the same methods routinely used against Palestinians under occupation: humiliation, deprivation, and collective punishment.
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Greta Thunberg and the other Swedish Global Sumud Flotilla heroes have now landed in Athens.
"The mood is fantastic, there are very many people here and everyone is happy and hugging", says Desirée, press spokesperson for "Global Movement to Gaza Sverige" ("Sverige" = the Swedish language word for "Sweden").

An article containing livestream from Athens by TT, the shared news agency of all major newspapers in Sweden:
expressen.se/nyheter/sverige/g…
Right now, they singing Bella Ciao!

Greta Thunberg har landat i Aten

Greta Thunberg har deporterats från Israel. På måndagseftermiddagen landade aktivistens plan – med åtta andra svenskar ombord – i Aten. – Ett folkmord pågår framför våra ögon.

^{linette israelsson (Expressen)}

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International activists, journalists and lawyers deported from Israel after attempting to breach the 16-year maritime blockade of Gaza as part of a humanitarian flotilla have alleged being subjected to brutal physical and verbal abuse by Israeli forces during their detention.

The alleged abuses included sleep and medication deprivation, beatings, having automatic rifles pointed at their heads, dogs set upon them, having to sleep on the floor, being subjected to insults and being made to watch footage of the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023.
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More: theguardian.com/world/2025/oct…

The conditions as they have been described so far definitely fall within the de jure definitions of torture and torturous conditions, as well as violating the detained's actual right to dignity.

Gaza flotilla members allege beatings and insults in Israeli detention

Some of those held say guns were pointed at them, they were threatened with dogs and deprived of sleep

^{Lorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)}

Mood... indomitable.

Speech: theguardian.com/world/live/202…

Pics: "Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who was part of the Global Sumud Flotilla seeking to deliver aid to Gaza and was detained by Israel, gestures as she is greeted by supporters upon her arrival to the Athens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport, in Athens, Greece, October 6, 2025."
Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters

Also anti-genocide Greta and other Global Sumud Flotilla activists from Sweden arrived home after being deported by Israel for being illegally abducted by Israel into Israel from international waters, at Stockholm Arlands Airport a large crowd welcomed the heroes back home.

No press questions taken, instead inviting the press to a press conference at Sergel's Square in central Stockholm this evening.

Centralmost Stockholm now:
"Hundreds have gathered here when Global Movement to Gaza i Sverige [=in Sweden] have organized a manifestation to welcome home the Swedish activists who were deported from Israel. At the location we expact among others Greta Thunberg."

In the corresponding article the major newspaper Aftonbladet reports "All Palestinians are in danger and the Government chooses to not do shit, says the political wild Lorena Delgado wo was on the boat during the press conference".

Remember when I commented on Italy's Foreign Minister 'Go to The Hague with you, "Sir"'?
Well, now "Italy PM Meloni says been denounced to ICC for complicity in genocide", so I'll take that.
To The Hague with you, Fascist.
reuters.com/business/aerospace…

Ref:
todon.eu/@b9AcE/11530063753584…

b9AcE is anti-fascist

2025-10-01 19:48:26

"Israeli military vessels intercept Gaza aid flotilla some 75 miles off the coast"
theguardian.com/world/live/202…

"Social media posts say that the Sirius-Haifa boat, forming part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was intercepted by the Israeli military."
theguardian.com/world/live/202…

'Italy foreign minister: [...] "The boarding was planned, we are talking about it ... with Minister Saar so that there would be no violent actions on the part of the Tel Aviv armed forces, and this has been assured to me,"'
reuters.com/world/middle-east/…
You... actually collaborated to maintain the illegal siege against the civilian populace as a part of Israel's genocidal warfare. Go to The Hague with you, "Sir".

Gaza aid flotilla: Israel intercepts vessels but one ship reported to have got through blockade – as it happened

One boat, the Mikeno, reported to have escaped the maritime blockade and to have stopped inside Palestinian territorial waters

^{José Olivares (The Guardian)}

Global Sumud Flotilla today:
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Six Global Sumud Flotilla participants are still held hostage by Israel after being illegally abducted in international waters. One Nigerian participant from the Omar Al-Mukhtar Flotilla and 145 participants of Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Thousand Madleens to Gaza are also still in detention.

Their detention is not just unlawful, it is a punishment for solidarity itself. This cannot be allowed to continue.

We call on all governments and people of conscience to act now.

Demand their release. Demand accountability.

We will not stop until each one of them is free.

To contact their Ministries of Foreign Affairs:
Morocco: +212 537 67 00 00
Norway: +47 23 95 00 00 | post@mfa.no
Spain: +34 91 379 79 65 | consular@maec.es
Nigeria: +234 9 523 4268 | info@mfa.gov.ng
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Note: Because I NEVER promote those platforms, I removed links to unacceptable platforms like Facebook, eX-Twitter, Instagram, you know who they are.