Overview

• The Foreign Ministry’s crisis center has been inundated with calls and emails about the convoy, with Laurent Saint-Martin warning the situation mirrors a June episode that drew roughly 45,000 emails.
• The international flotilla of about twenty vessels departed Barcelona earlier this month and remains bound for Gaza.
• Organizers report several incidents against the convoy, including drone activity while anchored off Tunis on September 9.
• About 140 signatories and left-wing figures have urged President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to grant urgent diplomatic protection to participants.
• Saint-Martin said French citizens aboard, including Rima Hassan, would receive consular assistance if arrested, and he argued that flotillas neither deliver humanitarian aid nor resolve the conflict.