Overview

• About 1,000 Tunisian activists, including medical volunteers and lawyers, departed Tunis on Monday with additional Algerian and Libyan participants expected to join.
• The convoy will cross Libya and Egypt before arriving at the Rafah border crossing, where aid stockpiles await delivery into Gaza.
• Organizers acknowledge they are unlikely to gain entry but aim to draw global attention to Gaza’s humanitarian plight and pave the way for aid deliveries and medical evacuations.
• On the same day, Israeli forces seized the Freedom Flotilla Coalition in international waters, detaining its passengers including Greta Thunberg and halting a parallel sea mission.
• Humanitarian experts warn Gaza could face famine unless the blockade imposed since 2007 is lifted and military operations cease.