Overview

• Thunberg will embark on Sunday aboard a Freedom Flotilla vessel alongside EU parliamentarian Rima Hassan.
• Participants intend to break the blockade to highlight Gaza’s humanitarian crisis and protest what they describe as genocide.
• This marks Thunberg’s second Gaza-bound attempt after an early-May mission was halted when the convoy’s ship was damaged.
• Rima Hassan, a member of La France insoumise who has faced Israeli entry bans over her statements, announced the plan and will join the protest.
• The Freedom Flotilla movement has previously sought to breach the Gaza blockade, most notably during the 2010 Mavi Marmara incident.