{"id":1896881,"date":"2026-04-22T17:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1896881"},"modified":"2026-04-22T17:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:06:44","slug":"a-new-flotilla-is-heading-to-gaza-amid-fears-of-israeli-interceptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1896881","title":{"rendered":"A new flotilla is heading to Gaza, amid fears of Israeli interceptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/72\/31\/80\/1200x675_cmsv2_909e13ec-d1f2-5068-8ac4-820f27d260b2-9723180.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<article id=\"abe-2888252-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object m-modeMobile-1 m-modeDesktop-1 m-modeXL-1\" data-nid=\"2888252\" data-cid=\"9732212\" data-part-label=\"Partner content\">\n<figure id=\"abe-2888252-label-pos1-c-latest-stories\" class=\"the-media-object__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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                     Europe News<\/p><\/div>\n<\/nav>\n<h1 class=\"c-article-redesign-title\">\n                            A new flotilla is heading to Gaza, amid fears of Israeli interceptions<\/h1>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-video u-position-relative \">\n<div class=\"js-superdiv u-aspect-ratio-16x9 u-position-relative \" data-sponsored=\"Partner content\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-poster-img c-article-media__img\" src=\"https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/72\/31\/80\/1536x864_cmsv2_909e13ec-d1f2-5068-8ac4-820f27d260b2-9723180.jpg\" width=\"1536\" height=\"864\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"The first boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla departing from in Barcelona, Spain, on 12 Apriln \"><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-caption u-position-absolute\"><i id=\"article-caption-content\" class=\"c-article-caption__content\"><span class=\"c-article-caption__text\"><br \/>\n              The first boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla departing from in Barcelona, Spain, on 12 Apriln<br \/>\n                    <span class=\"u-color-white\">&#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__copyright\">Copyright\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"c-article-caption__credit\">Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-image-copyright c-article-image-copyright--novideo\">\n      Copyright\u00a0Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"h-grid o-article-newsy__main__body u-article-content\">\n<div class=\"o-article-newsy__contributors-publication-date\">\n<div class=\"c-article-contributors\">\n  By&amp;nbspVincenzo Genovese\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-publication-date\" data-timestamp=\"1776877604\">\n                    Published on                 <time datetime=\"2026-04-22 19:06:44 +02:00\">22\/04\/2026 &#8211; 19:06 GMT+2<\/time><span class=\"c-article-publication-date__bullet\">\u2022<\/span>Updated<br \/>\n                                     <time datetime=\"19:08\">19:08<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire u-align-items-center u-display-flex\"><span class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire__links u-align-items-center u-display-flex u-justify-content-center js-c-article-partage-commentaire-share\"><span>Share<\/span><\/span><span>Comments<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"c-article-partage-commentaire-popup-overlay 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has called in the past a \u201cthreat\u201d and a \u201cprovocation\u201d.<br \/>\n    <\/h2>\n<div class=\"c-article-content js-article-content\">\n<p>The \u201cGlobal Sumud Flotilla\u201d is ready to sail to Gaza again, after its previous mission was intercepted last October by Israeli authorities and failed to reach the Strip.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-mobile-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-ad u-show-for-desktop\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt loading=\"lazy\"><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Almost a hundred boats with around 1,000 people on board will be involved in the new mission, meant to deliver humanitarian aid in Gaza, bypassing Israeli controls. The new initiative is considered even more dangerous than the last one, given the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The last boats are expected to depart on Saturday from Augusta, Sicily, and join up with other vessels departing from Barcelona and Marseille. In the past few days, the flotilla tried to stop a cargo ship carrying raw materials en route to supply the Israeli military industry. Other boats are expected to join along the way to Gaza, departing from Greece and T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n<p>The Gaza-bound initiative will be the largest civilian maritime mission for Palestine in history, almost double the size of the previous one, according to its promoters, a network of students, union workers, humanitarians and pro-Palestinian associations. Their ultimate goal is to break what they define as \u201cthe illegal siege imposed by Israel on Gaza.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The last flotilla, made up of almost 50 vessels, was stopped in international waters north of Egypt in October 2025, while attempting to enter an area that Israeli authorities warned them not to cross, a few days before the ceasefire in Gaza was reached. <\/p>\n<p>The Israeli navy approached the flotilla and boarded the vessels, seizing the boats and detaining activists, journalists and politicians who were on board, including climate activist Greta Thunberg. The interception sparked protests in many cities across Europe, however all of the people taken from the boats were released after one or two days in prison in Israel and subsequently returned to their home countries.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli government said it had the right to enforce a naval blockade on Gaza during the war against the terrorist group Hamas, considering the flotilla action &#8220;not a humanitarian mission but a political provocation&#8221; and claiming it had been financed by Hamas. The Global Sumud Flotilla organisation rejected this accusation. <\/p>\n<p>This new initiative risks ending up the same way, as it is very unlikely that Israel would allow the vessels to reach the Gaza Strip. \u201cIt is a fear that we have. We know what we are going against,\u201d Navid Lari, a Belgian activist who is sailing in the mission, told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>However, he and his fellow activists consider Israel\u2019s interception system not unbreakable. \u201cLast time they had a hard time intercepting forty-five ships, we saw the limits of their system,\u201d he said, claiming that the strong civil society mobilisation that followed the flotilla&#8217;s interception had influenced some EU governments\u2019 stance on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the launch, the Global Sumud Flotilla convened a Congress in Brussels on Wednesday, including members of the European Parliament, politicians from several EU and non-EU countries and UN officials such as Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBrussels Declaration\u201d, signed by the participants, calls for the establishment of a humanitarian maritime corridor to Gaza, grounded in international 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In the past few days, the flotilla tried to stop a cargo ship carrying raw materials en route to supply the Israeli military industry. Other boats are expected to join along the way to Gaza, departing from Greece and T\u00fcrkiye.The Gaza-bound initiative will be the largest civilian maritime mission for Palestine in history, almost double the size of the previous one, according to its promoters, a network of students, union workers, humanitarians and pro-Palestinian associations. Their ultimate goal is to break what they define as \u201cthe illegal siege imposed by Israel on Gaza.&#8221;The last flotilla, made up of almost 50 vessels, was stopped in international waters north of Egypt in October 2025, while attempting to enter an area that Israeli authorities warned them not to cross, a few days before the ceasefire in Gaza was reached.\u00a0The Israeli navy approached the flotilla and boarded the vessels, seizing the boats and detaining activists, journalists and politicians who were on board, including climate activist Greta Thunberg. The interception sparked protests in many cities across Europe, however all of the people taken from the boats were released after one or two days in prison in Israel and subsequently returned to their home countries.The Israeli government said it had the right to enforce a naval blockade on Gaza during the war against the terrorist group Hamas, considering the flotilla action &#8220;not a humanitarian mission but a political provocation&#8221; and claiming it had been financed by Hamas. The Global Sumud Flotilla organisation rejected this accusation.\u00a0This new initiative risks ending up the same way, as it is very unlikely that Israel would allow the vessels to reach the Gaza Strip. \u201cIt is a fear that we have. We know what we are going against,\u201d Navid Lari, a Belgian activist who is sailing in the mission, told Euronews.However, he and his fellow activists consider Israel\u2019s interception system not unbreakable. \u201cLast time they had a hard time intercepting forty-five ships, we saw the limits of their system,\u201d he said, claiming that the strong civil society mobilisation that followed the flotilla&#8217;s interception had influenced some EU governments\u2019 stance on the issue.Ahead of the launch, the Global Sumud Flotilla convened a Congress in Brussels on Wednesday, including members of the European Parliament, politicians from several EU and non-EU countries and UN officials such as Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories.The \u201cBrussels Declaration\u201d, signed by the participants, calls for the establishment of a humanitarian maritime corridor to Gaza, grounded in international law and verified by the United Nations.<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/04\/22\/a-new-flotilla-is-heading-to-gaza-amid-fears-of-israeli-interceptions&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/images.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/09\/72\/31\/80\/1200x675_cmsv2_909e13ec-d1f2-5068-8ac4-820f27d260b2-9723180.jpg&#8221;] Europe News Czech students protest government plans to cut public media funding No Comment Aerial footage shows widespread destruction in southern Lebanon Europe News Son of Hungary&#8217;s outgoing prime minister discharged from military Europe News Exclusive: Hungary&#8217;s new government to review \u20ac16bn EU defence plan Europe News Czech students protest government plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[226,36],"class_list":["post-1896881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","tag-crawlmanager","tag-euronews-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1896881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1896881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1896881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1896881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}