A fleet of 70 vessels carrying roughly 1,000 volunteers from 70 countries departed Barcelona on Sunday as part of the "Global Resilience Flotilla," aiming to deliver humanitarian aid — including food, medicine, and school supplies — to Gaza (the Palestinian coastal enclave under Israeli naval blockade since 2007). Organisers, who include NGOs such as Greenpeace and Open Arms, say the mission seeks to expose what they describe as international complicity in the humanitarian crisis and to force open a sea corridor into Gaza, where more than 72,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023. The campaign follows a predecessor flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces in October 2025, and echoes a series of similar attempts dating back to 2010, all of which were stopped — sometimes violently — by the Israeli navy in international waters.