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Trying again: Anti-Israel activists announce plans for new Gaza flotilla in March

2026-02-06

Participation trophy activism. They’ll keep trying until every Israel-hater has had his or her very own Mediterranean cruise with a stay in a picturesque Israeli prison.

[IsraelTimes] Campaigners including Nelson Mandela’s grandson call on international community to prevent Israel from again intercepting flotilla, which is expected to include over 100 vessels

Organizers of an anti-Israel, pro-Paleostinian international flotilla aiming to break Israel’s blockade on Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
announced plans Thursday for a new mission to the Strip with more than 100 boats in March.

Are the flotillas still a project of IHH, the Turkish government-linked branch of the Muslim Brotherhood in Turkey, or have thry been moved to another portfolio? I’ve lost track.

The announcement was made at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa, and speakers included Mandla Mandela, grandson of the late former South African president. They called on the international community to prevent Israeli forces from intercepting the operation, as they have in the past.

The anti-Israel campaigners, who last year organized a similar flotilla carrying a symbolic amount of humanitarian aid

, described the upcoming mission as the biggest civilian-led mobilization against Israel’s actions in Gaza. Israeli officials repeatedly denounced last year’s mission, and previous smaller-scale attempts to reach Gaza by sea, as publicity stunts.

Mandela was part of the flotilla that embarked on a mission to Gaza last year and was detained along with other activists when their boat was intercepted by Israeli forces before they could reach Gaza shores.

According to organizers, more than 1,000 activists, including medical doctors, war crimes Sherlocks and engineers, will form part of the new flotilla.

It will be supported by a land convoy that is expected to attract thousands more activists across countries, including Tunisia and Egypt.

The Egypt land route consistently results in the “activists” being abused by locals and the unappreciative authorities before they reach the Rafah crossing, much to thr participants’ bewilderment…

The boats are expected to sail from Spain, Tunisia and Italia toward Gaza.

"This time around we expect hundreds and thousands to sign up and to mobilize entry through Egypt, through Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....
, through Jordan and every other border that is feasible for us to get into occupied Paleostine and to Gaza," Mandela said. "We want to mobilize the entire global community to join forces with us."

If the flotilla is blocked again, the activists said it would still be worth it to highlight the humanitarian crisis

“REEEE!! Pay attention to US!!!”

facing the roughly two million people living in the Strip, the vast majority of whom have been displaced by Israeli bombing amid the war with the Hamas
Hamas

..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
terror group following the latter’s October 7, 2023, onslaught.

"We may not have reached Gaza physically [but] we have reached... the people in Gaza," said one of the activists, Susan Abdallah. "They know that we care, that we will not stop at anything until we actually break the siege."

Thiago Avila, a Brazilian activist who is part of the steering committee, claimed the flotilla was protected by international law.

"The International Court of Justice in the provisional ruling in the case opened by South Africa against the genocide state of Israel, states very clearly that Israel or any other nation are prohibited to hinder any type of humanitarian mission on the way to Gaza," he said.

Israel has angrily rejected the genocide case, which South Africa filed to the ICJ in December 2023 — two months after the October 7 Hamas massacre that sparked the war in Gaza.

Mandela said the flotilla organizers had chosen to host the briefing at the Nelson Mandela Foundation to highlight Nelson Mandela’s support for the Paleostinian cause. They also welcomed South Africa’s decision last month to expel Israel’s chargé d’affaires, which Israel responded to in kind.

Last year’s mission mobilized about 50 vessels and 500 activists, all of which were intercepted by Israeli forces before they reached the Strip.

An estimated 443 participants were detained and then deported, including Mandela, activist Greta "Pippi" Thunberg
...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change, though I guess she's older now...
and European Parliament member Rima Hassan.

The announcement of the new flotilla came as COGAT, the Israeli Defense Ministry body that oversees aid to Gaza, said it has facilitated the entry of 4,200 trucks of humanitarian aid trucks a week to Gaza since a fragile ceasefire took hold there in October.

The deliveries included over a million tons of food, or "four times Gaza’s need, based on the UN methodology," COGAT said on social media on Tuesday.

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