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Complicity

Greece and Cyprus: Genocidal Wingmen

On May 18, israel illegally intercepted 40 of our boats and abducted our participants in Cyprus’s search and rescue zone, where Cyprus abandoned its duty to intervene. Two weeks before, Greece allowed israel to intercept 22 of our boats off the coast of Crete and brutalize 181 participants aboard a floating prison in its territorial waters, before abducting two activists—one a European citizen—to occupied Palestine.

GSF Editorial Team · May 22, 2026

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The Siege

Why we sail: The siege of Gaza

Long before October 2023, israel’s blockade of Gaza had already crammed 2 million Palestinians into "the world's largest open-air prison", creating conditions often described as collective punishment. In 2006, following...

GSF Editorial Team · May 13, 2026

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Complicity

Letter from Comrade Ghassan El Bughdiri from Mornaguia Prison

Ghassan El Boghdiri, a member of the 2025 Global Sumud Flotilla steering committee, has been held in Mornaguia Prison in Tunisia for two months without a hearing. Ghassan transmitted the following letter after being issued a 7-month sentence for false charges which he was denied legal counsel to defend himself against.

GSF Editorial Team · May 11, 2026

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Complicity

The Algorithm of Complicity

As we prepare for our Spring 2026 action, mobilizing over 70+ boats and more than 1,000+ participants from across the globe, our mission remains clear: we are sailing to uphold the human dignity and international law that governments have categorically abandoned. But as we organize on the water, a different kind of mobilization is happening in Silicon Valley and military headquarters.

GSF Editorial Team · Abr 22, 2026

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Ethics Committee Closes Investigation into Steering Committee Member Following Full Review

Ethics Committee Closes Investigation into Steering Committee Member Following Full Review GSF's independent Ethics Committee (EC) has investigated concerns raised regarding rumours alleging sexual misconduct by a Steering Committee (SC) member...

GSF Media Team · Abr 19, 2026

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Humans of GSF

One Month Later- Free The Tunisian 7

On March 6th, 2026, an arrest campaign was started that shook the pro-Palestinian landscape in Tunisia. Seven activists, some of whom put their own bodies on the line for the possibility of breaking the illegal siege on Gaza, were arrested and sent to prison on what appear to be unfounded charges. Let’s say their names: Jawaher Channa, Wael Nawar, Ghassan Henchiri, Ghassan Boughediri, Sana Msahli, Dr. Mohamed Amine Ben Nour, Nabil Chennoufi.

GSF Editorial Team · Abr 6, 2026

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Colonial Context

Izwe lethu/The land is ours: Remembering the Sharpeville Massacre

On the 21st of March 1960, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) organised thousands of unarmed Black South Africans in a peaceful protest against the “pass laws” that controlled their lives...

GSF Editorial Team · Mar 21, 2026

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Actions & Mobilization

There Are a Thousand Ways to Kneel and Kiss the Ground

Movements fall apart not only because they are attacked and suppressed from the outside. They are also fractured, gradually or explosively, from within. Too often, when internal difference is turned into suspicion, judgement and competition, we end up spending more energy scrutinizing one another than actually confronting the forces that are destroying people’s lives. This is not accidental. It’s foundational to empire.

GSF Editorial Team · Mar 17, 2026

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