FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 12, 2026

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), alongside the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), Thousand Madleens to Gaza (TMTG), and allied movements across the world, is mobilizing the largest coordinated civilian maritime action in history to break Israel’s illegal and deadly siege of Gaza.

From Marseille to Naples, from Barcelona to ports across the Mediterranean, civilian vessels are already on the move. On April 4, 2026, 20 boats launched from Marseille and on April 10, arrived in Naples, where they were welcomed by and marched with grassroots movements and port workers refusing complicity in siege and starvation. On April 12, 39 boats will launch from Barcelona. In other ports, boats are being readied to join

This is not symbolic. This is direct civilian action to confront a system of apartheid, domination, colonization, and oppression that governments have enabled and protected for decades.

For too long, Israel has acted with total impunity—systematically violating Palestinian human rights, entrenching an illegal occupation, and enforcing a blockade that constitutes collective punishment. That impunity has led us here: to a genocide in Gaza, and now to its expansion into Lebanon and across the region.

Israel targets hospitals, ambulances. homes, schools. mosques, churches, shelters–normalizing systematic attacks on civilian infrastructure that should never be targeted. And the world’s most powerful governments, led by the United States, continue to provide the military, political, economic and diplomatic support that makes these crimes possible.

We refuse to be complicit.

We sail because governments have failed to uphold their legal obligations under international law. We sail because Palestinians deserve to be free. We sail because Palestinian civil society has called on the world to act. We sail because waiting means more death, more destruction, and more normalization of the unthinkable.

But action at sea is not enough.

As boats rise at sea to break the siege and open a corridor to Gaza, civil society must rise on land to shut down the machinery that sustains it. We call on civil society everywhere to mobilize—at ports, factories, corporate offices, and government institutions—to disrupt the global weapons pipeline.

Block the ships carrying weapons.

Refuse to load and unload instruments of war.

Expose and challenge the corporations profiting from genocide.

Demand an immediate arms embargo and accountability under international law.

From dockworkers to students, from legal advocates to frontline organizers, coordinated civilian action can—and already has—interrupted the flow of weapons and forced governments to reckon with their complicity.

This is a moment that demands escalation.

The flotilla is part of a broader global movement—by sea and by land—working to dismantle the systems that enable apartheid, occupation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. We are not only confronting the illegal Israeli blockade on Gaza. We are confronting the entire war machine behind it. This Spring 2026 flotilla is a declaration that civil society will act where governments have failed—on the seas, in the streets, and across the infrastructures of power that sustain violence.

We will not normalize genocide.

We will not accept impunity.

We will disrupt it—everywhere.

For information about Thousand Madleens to Gaza sailing, contact: thousand.madleens@proton.me
For information about the Global Sumud Flotilla, contact : media@globalsumudflotilla.org

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