The Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza — A cry at sea to the world’s dormant conscience

While the world’s attention has been hijacked by the new American, made-for-Israel war against Iran, a quieter act of resistance is gathering on the deep blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea. An act of defiance determined to remind the international community that there is no pause in Gaza’s genocide, and there will be none for those fighting to end it. The Global Sumud Flotilla, (sumud means “steadfast” in Arabic), is now on its 2026 spring mission. International activists boarding close to 100 boats, with Greenpeace’s Arctic Sunrise providing technical and operational support, are sailing to Gaza under the slogan: We sail until Palestine is free. The goal is clear, and against all odds, to establish a direct maritime corridor to […]