Update: The new flotilla, Freedom Flotilla - Thousand Madleens to Gaza & Conscience website and livestream:
From the Global Sumud Flotilla telegram:
👀 As we approach the high risk ‘orange zone’ we need eyes on the Flotilla ❗️
Witness provides protection.
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Update from their Telegram:
Full text of press release (minus contact info)
[Global Sumud Flotilla logo]FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
STATEMENT ON ITALIAN NAVAL FRIGATE ATTEMPTING TO UNDERMINE THE GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
September 30th, 2025
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed us that the naval frigate shadowing our flotilla will soon issue a radio call, offering participants the “opportunity” to abandon ship and return to shore before reaching the so-called “critical zone." Let us be absolutely clear: this is not protection. it is sabotage. It is an attempt to demoralize and fracture a peaceful humanitarian mission that governments have failed to take on themselves, even though it is their silence and complicity that fed to this point.
This is cowardice dressed up as diplomacy. If Italy truly sought to protect lives, it would not be acting as Israel's enabler, nor would it pressure civilians to retreat. it would use its naval fleet to ensure the safe passage of peaceful volunteers to Gaza, to enforce international law, and to deliver life-saving supplies. Anything less is complicity.
Every single participant on board came with full knowledge of the risks. We are not here under any false illusion. We are here because it is far more dangerous to remain silent in the face of genocide, starvation, and collective punishment than it is to sail carrying humanitarian aid, The Italian government knows this, and yet instead of using its considerable naval power to break an illegal siege, it is choosing to escort us only to the point of danger and then try to peel us away, delivering us back to shore empty-handed, as Israel continues to slaughter and starve the Palestinian people with complete impunity.
We say again: the flotilla sails onward. The Italian navy will not derail this mission. The humanitarian demand to break the blockade cannot be walked back to port, and our moral responsibility cannot be abandoned overboard. Every nautical mile we sail, every threat we face, only underscores what governments have failed to do and what ordinary citizens are now compelled to do.
Israel's blockade is illegal. Its siege is criminal. And the world’s silence is intolerable. If the Italian government wants to be remembered for courage, it must sail with us.