(31 Aug 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Barcelona, Spain – 31 August 2025
1. Wide of boats with Palestinian flags setting sail
2. Various of people on a boat including Thiago Avila, Saif Abukeshek, Greta Thunberg and former Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau
3. Wide of boats sailing and Palestinian flag ++MUTE++
4. Various of boats sailing
5. Mid of activist chanting, UPSOUND (English) "Free Palestine."
6. Wide of crowd and a sign reading (Spanish) "It hurts, Gaza."
7. Pan of crowd
8. Close of crowd chanting (English) "Boycott Israel, boycott genocide."
9. People waving to crowd
10. Mid of person holding a map showing the flotilla route from Barcelona to Gaza
11. Wide of crowd and boats
12. People loading aid onto boats
13. Wide of boat deck
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve (only one name given due to security), flotilla participant:
"It’s just gotten to the point where I can’t sit by and not do anything anymore. I can’t just look at my screen, see what’s happening and not do anything. I feel like really the fate of humanity is on the line and I need to do something, so I’m here."
15. Close of Palestinian flag and crowd
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Murphy, flotilla participant:
"I know it’s risky and my family are concerned that I am here. There is an element of risk in the mission, but like, what if we don’t do this? Look at the risk, look at the risk to humanity if we don’t do this. Israel will never stop. Israel will continue to do what they do and gain more power. It’s like a furnace now, it needs power to survive and this won’t stop with the Palestinian people. We have to do this, we have to do this for the sake of the planet. We have to do this for the sake of humanity, our grandchildren, their children, we have to do it."
17. Various of boats
STORYLINE:
A flotilla of ships departed from Barcelona to the Gaza Strip Sunday with humanitarian aid and activists on board in the largest attempt yet to break the long Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory by sea.
The Global Sumud Flotilla is carrying food, water and medicine. Activists on board demanded safe passage to deliver the much-needed aid and the opening of a humanitarian sea corridor.
This comes as Israel has stepped up its offensive on Gaza City, limiting the deliveries of food and basic supplies in the north of the Palestinian territory.
Food experts warned earlier this month that the city was in famine and that half a million people across the strip were facing catastrophic levels of hunger.
The almost 23-month war has killed more than 63,000 people, with at least 332 Palestinians dying of malnutrition, including 124 children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
The maritime convoy of about 20 boats and delegations from 44 countries is claimed to be the largest attempt to date to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip by sea, which has now lasted 18 years.
They will be joined by more ships from ports in Italy and Tunisia in the coming days, on the route from the western end of the Mediterranean to the Gaza Strip, organizers said.
The fleet could reach Gaza around Sept. 14 or 15.
AP video shot by Renata Brito
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