Global Sumud Flotilla

Legal and Humanistic Analysis of the Global Flotilla Sumud Case in Israel This brief article aims to rigorously and sensitively examine the allegations of torture and mistreatment suffered by members of the Global Flotilla Sumud following their detention and kidnapping…

The contemporary world seems trapped in a machinery designed for forgetting. A machinery made of foolish algorithms that reward banality and one-minute trending topics, while rendering invisible the struggles that should shake consciences. The solidarity flotilla that sailed toward Gaza…

On Thursday, October 2nd, the International Day of Nonviolence, protest demonstrations were held in numerous cities around the world in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla and to demand an end to the genocide against the Palestinian people. In Barcelona, the day…

I don’t know if it was planned or just a tremendous historical coincidence that the boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla were intercepted by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) between the night of October 1st and the dawn of this…

Italy has done the unthinkable: turning a naval deployment into an act of political prestidigitation. It sent frigates for the photo op, to display before European public opinion an image of humanitarian commitment, but at the first brush with Israel’s…

In the final hours of September 29, the Global Sumud Flotilla is at a critical point in the eastern Mediterranean, sailing at the threshold of waters under Israeli control and brushing the international line between orange and red alert over…

All those courageous United Nation delegates triumphantly walking out (gasp!) on a Netanyahu speech on Friday actually had a legal obligation to arrest him and deliver him to the International Criminal Court which has long since issued a warrant for…

The Global Sumud Flotilla, made up of more than 500 volunteers from 44 countries—including doctors, parliamentarians, and human rights defenders—has been attacked thirteen times in recent hours while sailing through international waters between Greece and Libya on its way to…

The general strike for Gaza and alongside the Global Sumud Flotilla, promoted by the Unione Sindacale di Base and other unions, is affecting dozens of cities across Italy, often under pouring rain. Below is a partial photo gallery, which nevertheless…

The seventeen boats of the Italian delegation of the Global Sumud Flotilla, having completed the leg of their journey toward the open sea, destination Gaza, are awaiting final operations regarding satellite communications with some vessels docked in Tunis. Most of…