October 2, 2025

Israeli forces have intercepted 39 boats carrying aid and foreign activists, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg, to Gaza, leaving only one vessel still sailing towards the Palestinian enclave, the flotilla organizers said on Thursday.

Various governments of countries with citizens on board expressed their concern at the arrests.

Türkiye's foreign ministry called Israel's "attack" on the flotilla "an act of terror" that endangered the lives of innocent civilians. But Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni repeated her criticism of the attempt by those on board the flotilla to reach Gaza.

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