Overview

• Haenel announced Friday she will embark from Tunis on the Global Sumud flotilla to attempt to reach Gaza.
• The Tunisian convoy is scheduled to sail Sunday after weather delays, with a planned rendezvous at sea with boats that left Barcelona.
• Organizers say fourteen vessels carrying more than a hundred participants intend to deliver food and medical supplies and aim to approach Gaza in mid-September.
• Haenel completed two days of training in Tunis and framed the effort as peaceful, calling for a humanitarian corridor and accusing Israel of orchestrating famine.
• The mission follows the UN’s August famine declaration for Gaza and comes after Israeli forces intercepted earlier flotillas in June and July.