A flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists who attempted to reach Gaza last year say they will launch a new mission to the devastated territory from Barcelona on April 12.
The Global Sumud Flotilla’s first weeks-long journey across the Mediterranean Sea to Gaza, blockaded by Israel during the war against Palestinian terror group Hamas, drew worldwide attention.
The group, which described its first attempt as a humanitarian mission, says the latest trip starting in Spain’s second-largest city will gather more than 80 boats and 1,000 international participants.
“The cost of inaction is too high to bear,” it says in a statement, adding that a land-based movement will join the maritime action to create pressure in multiple countries.
“As Gaza endures intensifying blockade, violence and deprivation, the mission is a principled, nonviolent intervention: a defense of human dignity, a call for humanitarian access, and a demand for international accountability,” the group says.
Gaza is under a ceasefire agreed in October, which followed two years of devastating conflict sparked by the October 7, 2023, Hamas onslaught in Israel.
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