Overview

• Ten vessels left Sicily on Saturday with about 60 people on board, including elected officials from nine countries, in an effort organized by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Thousand Madleens to Gaza.
• The Italy-based group says its boats carry medical supplies, dry food and school materials, and it plans to link up with the larger Global Sumud flotilla en route to Gaza.
• Global Sumud, which set sail from Spain on August 31 with more than 50 boats, aims to deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians under Israel’s maritime blockade.
• The United Nations has called for investigations into alleged drone or incendiary attacks reported by flotilla participants, who blame Israel, as Tunisian authorities now describe earlier incidents near their coast as a premeditated attack.
• An Irish participant reported a three-hour drone assault on the vessel Alma off Greece after a prior incident off Tunisia left part of the boat on fire, with organizers saying 11 boats were targeted in the latest episode and stressing that some details remain based on eyewitness accounts.