(13 Sep 2025)
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Bizerte, Tunisia – 13 September 2025
1. Mid of the first Spanish vessel leaving Bizerte port heading towards Gaza, chanting (English): "Free free Palestine, free free Palestine"
2. Various of the first Spanish vessel leaving Bizerte port and participants waving
3. Mid of participants loading food supplies onto their vessels
4. Mid of fuel reserves being filled into jerrycans
5. Palestinian participant Rana Hamida saying goodbye to her friend on the dock
6. Close of fuel reserves being filled into jerrycans
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rana Hamida, Palestinian participant and vessel captain:
"This pain is a pain for revolution, for (the) evolution of (the) human race. It’s the pain that we have the chance right now to evolve all together as humans together. There is no one that can do it alone. So we need to remember that also with this flotilla that it is not a one-person job. We have to stick together and we have to work together and even when the time comes where we don’t know, do I know enough, am I receiving all the information that I need to receive? All of these things are just noise in your mind and noise of conditioning that we’ve been brainwashed over years and years and years of make believe that we are unable to make change, but we have the power together as people. We are united, and this is just a reminder.”
8. Various of flotilla vessels at the port
9. Rana Hamida speaking with friends and fellow crew members before boarding
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Rana Hamida, Palestinian participant and vessel captain:
"We’re not scared. The purpose, just remember, the purpose of attacks like this is to deflate the energy of the people and to distract people and to shake them. What it actually does is that it brings people together."
11. Various of flotilla vessels preparing for departure from Bizerte
STORYLINE:
An international activist flotilla seeking to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza left Tunisia on Saturday, after a stopover in the North African country marked by weather delays and suspected drone attacks.
The Global Sumud Flotilla, which includes Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and former Barcelona mayor Ada Colau, is aiming to sail Gaza with around 20 boats, carrying a symbolic amount of humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza.
The activists group planned to stop in Tunis for other boats to join.
The group said their vessels were attacked on both Monday and Tuesday night last week by drones that dropped projectiles which caused fires on the boats.
The flotilla was moved to Bizerte on Thursday.
Many of the Tunisian boats were unable to continue on, facing technical difficulties and unable to get to Bizerte from the port town of Sidi Bou Said near Tunis.
Rana Hamida, a Palestinian commanding one of the vessels, said the events at the Sidi Bou Said port did not deter her.
"We’re not scared,” she said.
“Just remember, the purpose of attacks like this is to deflate the energy of the people and to distract people, and to shake them. What it actually does is that it brings people together."
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