Overview

• The mission aims to deliver roughly 250 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Gaza and challenge the naval blockade through a civilian flotilla.
• Organizers report about 30 vessels and around 200 activists currently engaged, with additional groups expected to push totals above 400 people and roughly 60 boats.
• High-profile participants include Greta Thunberg, former Barcelona mayor Ada Colau, and Brazilian activist Thiago Avila, along with four Italian parliamentarians.
• Israel’s national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has proposed prolonged detention for any intercepted activists at Ketziot and Damon prisons with restricted privileges.
• The coalition has issued a nonviolence conduct guide and assembled legal teams, while a Rome solidarity boat on the Tiber drew about 100 participants under police route limits.