Overview

• Organisers in Tunis say local boats will depart once the Spanish flotilla reaches Tunisia, with a Sicily group also expected to link up on Sunday.
• Libyan vessel Omar al-Mukhtar is reported to set sail on 6 September carrying Libyan and international activists, including journalist Yvonne Ridley, to join the mission.
• Participants listed by organisers and media include Greta Thunberg and actor Liam Cunningham, while Mandla Mandela says he will join in Tunisia.
• Activists describe a large coalition with several dozen boats, with one participating French MP citing claims of more than 40 ships, as volunteers pack medicine and infant formula across Tunisian cities.
• The UN-backed IPC has declared famine in Gaza, and previous Gaza-bound flotillas were intercepted or attacked, including a reported drone strike on the ship Conscience in May.