An international aid flotilla is approaching the Gaza Strip in a bid to break the zionist entity’s blockade on the Palestinian enclave, organizers announced Monday. “We are 570 kilometers away from reaching Gaza,” the International Committee for Breaking the Siege on Gaza said in a post on X.
Italian activist Tony La Piccirella from the Global Sumud Flotilla said the ships will soon reach the point where earlier aid vessels Madleen and Handala were intercepted by Zionist naval forces. On July 26, the Zionist entity seized the Handala ship near Gaza and diverted it to Ashdod Port after it reached 70 nautical miles from the enclave, while the Madleen had been stopped earlier at 110 miles. This time, more activists are joining from the Mediterranean, Greece, and Türkiye, with the flotilla’s largest ship expected to set sail Tuesday carrying 100 people.
La Piccirella said Italian and Spanish navy vessels are providing protection, and three more countries are considering sending military escorts. He stressed that the effort has grown into a movement involving “hundreds of people at sea and millions on land” determined to break the siege. The Global Sumud Flotilla, made up of about 50 ships, aims to deliver humanitarian supplies, particularly medicine, to Gaza, where the zionist entity’s closure of all crossings since March 2 has blocked aid and deepened famine. The Zionist aggression has killed over 66,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and left the enclave devastated by hunger, disease, and destruction.
