About 20 ships carrying food and basic necessities with around 300 crew members sailed from Barcelona, Spain on August 31 toward Gaza for the Global Sumud Flotilla, considered the largest flotilla in history. Thousands of pro-Palestinian people gathered at the port to support those who dared to travel to Palestine despite threats of arrest and detention from Zionist Israel. Voyage supporters included members of the dock workers’ union in Spain, who have long refused to work on ships carrying weapons or supplies bound for Israel. Additional ships from the ports of Tunisia and Sicily are expected to join the flotilla.

Ordinary citizens from 44 countries, including Philippine Moro activists, are participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla. It aims to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza and establish a humanitarian sea corridor that will deliver urgently needed food to the dying population in Gaza.

Well-known environmental activist Greta Thunberg, and United Kingdom actor Liam Cunningham joined the flotilla again.

On the day of departure, an official of the Zionist state threatened to arrest everyone aboard the ships, declare them terrorists, and detain them for long in prisons under so-called “terrorist-level conditions.” He also threatened to seize the ships and turn them over to the Zionist police.

Condemnation of Israel’s plan poured in from various groups, including from the UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine, Francesca Albanese. Meanwhile, the heads of state of Malaysia and Colombia expressed their support for the flotilla.