Overview
- The Israeli Foreign Ministry said its navy halted several boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla and will bring those aboard to an Israeli harbor.
- Israeli officials posted video stating Greta Thunberg is safe and healthy after forces boarded some vessels.
- Organizers say more than 40 civilian boats left Barcelona to deliver food and medical supplies to Gaza and to stage a protest against Israel’s military actions.
- Israel said it warned the flotilla to change course and offered to transfer cargo through ports outside Gaza, which it says the organizers declined.
- Spain and Italy dispatched naval escorts that urged the convoy to avoid the Israeli exclusion zone, with Spain saying its ships would not enter it.