All New Flotilla Mission Launches to Break the Gaza Siege!

Right, so if Israel thought they’d won the day in their illegal detention of the Freedom Flotilla vessel, the Madleen, then they have another think coming. Not only have they made matters worse for themselves in and of itself by bringing down legal action on their heads and amplifying the message of the Madleen, which was the main goal of their mission, in which case Israel have actually helped them succeed, but its also gone on to inspire and now another Flotilla of a sort is setting off and this is far, far bigger. Upwards of 50,000 people are set to join the Global March to Gaza, travelling from Cairo to the gates of Rafah to demand global government intervention, to demand an end to the siege, to take action as ordinary working class people from the world over, saying enough is enough, we aren’t going to stand for any more of this genocide as governments sit on their hands, as global bodies fail to act, as Israeli allies stand in the way. An incredibly brave, diverse group of people coming together in collectivism and solidarity to stand up for what is right and just against an oppressive regime that even now benefits from an obscene amount of governmental support. If you won’t do what is right, then ordinary people are taking matters into their own hands.
Right, so enough is enough. Enough of the images of suffering, enough of the people of Gaza facing atrocity day after day that defies basic human decency and dignity, enough of governments around the world doing nothing, call ing the situation intolerable, whilst doing nothing to end it. As Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip enters its twentieth month, it is the weaponised starvation that they have instigated—turning hunger into a strategy of war, that has horrified so many all over again. Gaza’s pre war population of over two million endures not just bombs and displacement, but a relentless slow-strangulation: cratering nutrition, water scarcity, decimated healthcare, and infrastructure collapse—hallmarks of a man-made catastrophe designed to coerce surrender.
Yet, in response to this moral outrage, courage emerged.
The Freedom Flotilla set sail once again, a month after Israeli drones ended their voyage off the coast of Malta last month, this month, aboard a new ship, the Madleen, they took off again, only to be illegally intercepted and detained in what is a blatant act of piracy, such is Israel’s determination that not a single grain of rice or gram of flour get into Gaza without their say-so.
Where that breach of international law now brings down on Israel even more condemnation and legal action, the message of the Madleen has been heard ever louder as a result of their actions and now more activists, diplomats, lawmakers, doctors, journalists, and civilians have launched a bold new initiative from North Africa—not a sea flotilla this time, but a land flotilla: over 200 delegates setting off from Algeria and hundreds more from Tunisia, forming what is being called the Sumud (“Steadfastness”) convoy. These groups are part of a global “March of the Free”—a movement of solidarity marching to Rafah to demand that starvation cease to be a weapon, that Israel’s siege be ended, and that aid be allowed in.
As we should all well know by now, Israel has imposed a near-total blockade on Gaza’s crossings—designed under the justification of “security” but executed in a way that systematically denies ordinary civilians food, medicine, fuel, clean water, and healthcare. The International Crisis Group has warned that Israel’s military campaign is pushing Gaza to the edge of death—through starvation and disease.
This is no mere collateral damage—it is strategic deprivations. Legal scholars increasingly characterize it as collective punishment—a crime under international law as we know that to be. Organizations like the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report that hundreds of thousands of Gazans are experiencing catastrophic hunger. Even with limited aid resuming in recent weeks, experts insist that true famine is imminent unless these draconian restrictions are lifted.
The siege’s design is brutal in its calculus: degrade the civilian population’s resilience, foment desperation, provoke internal collapse. Gazan families—once whole—now go hungry or rely on makeshift clinics; entire communities lack power and sanitation. The result is a humanitarian crisis as engineered by policy—not by accident.
No amount of spin can mask the fundamental truth that Israel have turned starvation into a weapon. Its ongoing nature, intensity, and targeting of essentials defy any claim to legitimate military objective. For Gaza’s beleaguered people, it is simple: this is war by hunger now.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s vessel Madleen, intercepted in international waters, has now readily become a symbol of this struggle. Reports state that it was seized, boarded, and chemically assaulted before being dragged into Israel and its crew detained. The action shocked many in how Israel flagrantly breached international law, it might not have surprised many that the boat was stopped at some point, but what it really has done, is hardened the resolve of activists worldwide.
In Tunisia and Algeria, the seizure elicited further action and thus, the notion of a land flotilla—a convoy crossing the deserts of North Africa in defiance, solidarity, and action—has come into being.
Yesterday, the Sumud convoy comprising of more than 200 diplomats, lawmakers, volunteers, and activists departing from strategic points in Algeria and Tunisia set off. From Tunis, a fleet of buses and cars rolled out—packed with lawyers, doctors, medical staff, journalists, and union representatives—headed first for Sousse, Sfax, Gabès, and onto the critical crossing of Ras Jedir into Libya.
The convoy is a defiant message: Gaza is not alone, the crew of the Madleen are not alone; we will break the siege. The coordination includes Algerian delegations, Mauritanians, Moroccans, Libyans joining along the route.
The route itself is fraught though: across Libya, militia factions still make road travel dangerous, though equally many activists from Libya are joining the convoy. They then approach Egypt, where permits to enter the country and then travel onto Cairo, then onto Rafah remain uncertain. Thousands could find themselves trapped in Libya at the Egyptian border, though given the profile this convoy is garnering, it could prove very awkward for Egypt, for all their own military posturing in the Sinai, their own efforts to end the siege, to not let these people join up with even more who are flying into Cairo to combine forces.
People from the UK are flying in for just this purpose along with people from around the world, including UK socialist programme-maker Crispin Flintoff and his cameraman Carlos Soto. Where the Tunisian convoy aims to reach Cairo by this Thursday, they will then merge with international travellers like Flintoff, to form the March of the Free, tens of thousands converging on Rafah to enact solidarity in citizenship, rights, and humanity.
Reporting indicates that tens of thousands of people from across 54 countries are preparing to join the March of the Free—through flights, convoys and humanitarian networks. A coalition of activists, NGOs, unions, and governments—32 formal national delegations—are calling for an end to Gaza’s starvation siege, coordinating logistics and messaging.
This global unity underlines a widening crack in Israel’s siege narrative: the argument that Gaza’s civilian suffering is acceptable "collateral" is failing under the weight of overwhelming human consensus and where governments still won’t act, ordinary people from around the world are coming together to do so instead.
Despite all the barriers, organizers and participants assert an absolute resolve in what they are setting out to do.
They will proceed only with authorisation. If blocked at Salloum, the crossing into Egypt “they would decide their next steps in the field”, but there will be no going back. If they get held up, then they’ll shame those getting in their way frankly and it’s in nobody’s interest to do that, frankly any attempt to do so would be seen as complicity with Israel.
The Sumud convoy and March of the Free show that protest cannot remain optional, silence is after all, complicity. These are people risking travel in lawless or militarised zones to stand against a siege that is weaponising starvation.
Israel claims its restrictions are necessary because of Hamas and for their own security-driven motivations, that Gaza’s suffering is collateral, but they have no right to self defence under international law as occupiers of the land and its people. Initiatives like the Freedom Flotilla and now this land flotilla and the March of the Free challenge that narrative head-on—demonstrating that the siege is not security, but collective punishment. They bring legal, moral, and political scrutiny where diplomatic silence from global governments and insdtitutions has reigned.
By joining land and sea, northern and southern movements, political figures and grassroots communities, these actions spark global media attention, public discourse, and potentially we can hope some shifts in government stances—from Egypt to Europe. When individual lives take such risks in solidarity, they shift the moral horizon and those seen to be doing nothing are found to be wanting.
Gaza’s Palestinians face death not only by bullets and bombs, but by deliberate deprivation. Starvation is being wielded as war. For humanity’s sake, that has to end, alongside the ridiculous exceptionalism of the apartheid state itself.
The journey of this land flotilla—from Tunis to Rafah—is more than symbolic. It is an insistence: that aid, solidarity, and justice matter more than borders; that the world must not stand idle while siege endures and 50,000 estimated people are prepared to risk their own safety for others.
If you’ve got this far through this video, consider that this convoy is where moral witness meets action. And in that meeting point lies our shared responsibility:
Speak out about it. Tell your politicians: call for an immediate end to Gaza’s starvation siege.
Support it. Protest at embassies, donate to aid groups, amplify activists like Crispin Flintoff, check out his YouTube channel too.
Keep on learning about it. Challenge narratives that dismiss Gaza’s suffering as inevitable or deserved and support your favourite independent media who will tell you what the mainstream media remains silent about.
The Madleen, the land convoy, the March of the Free, they show that solidarity should not wait for permission from power to do what is right and what is needed and is just, because you’ll be waiting a long time and its time Gaza doesn’t have.
Protest works, BDS works, and ordinary working class people can make a difference, as this story here, which has had Benjamin Netanyahu in a right flap about will tell you all about as your suggested next watch.
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