Boats of the "Global Sumud Flotilla 2026 Spring Mission," aimed at breaking Israel's blockade on Gaza and delivering humanitarian aid, depart from the marina in Augusta on the island of Sicily, Italy, on April 26, 2026. [Barış Seçkin - Anadolu Agency]
There are moments when power stops pretending to be lawful and simply performs its obscenity in public. Israel’s assault on the Gaza-bound flotilla is one such moment: a state so accustomed to impunity that it now treats the Mediterranean as its private checkpoint, international waters as occupied territory, and unarmed civilians as contraband. The flotilla’s “crime” was not military. It carried no army, no missiles, no threat to Israel’s heavily armed paranoia. Its cargo was aid, witness, and moral embarrassment. That is precisely why it had to be attacked. Flour is dangerous when starvation is policy. Medicine is subversive when siege is strategy. A civilian boat becomes a menace when it exposes an empire of barbed wire, bombardment, and bureaucratic […]

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