Global Sumud Flotilla

16/06/2026

Five Australian participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla met with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong on Monday, following a request for a meeting made after their return to Australia two weeks ago. Senior members of the Australian Federal Police (AFP) were also present.

During the meeting, the participants shared their accounts of the treatment they endured after being intercepted by israeli forces in international waters. They described a range of alleged abuses, including torture, sexual violence, and other forms of mistreatment following their illegal kidnapping on the high seas in the dead of night at gun point.

When asked about their testimonies, Penny Wong said she believed the participants and has called for an AFP investigation into the crimes.

Global Sumud Flotilla participants Juliet Lamont, Neve O’Connor, Gemma O’Toole, and Isla Lamont have also submitted evidence relating to their cases to the International Criminal Court (ICC), alongside participants from multiple other countries. This follows formal investigations also launched by the French and Italian governments into israeli war crimes.

The AFP confirmed that it has begun making inquiries into the allegations and stated that it approaches such matters through a victim-centred, trauma-informed framework.

While this development is welcome, any investigation may ultimately depend on the cooperation of israeli authorities. Governments such as Australia must demand full compliance and ensure investigators have access to the information required to establish the facts.

Too many investigations into alleged violations have been delayed, obstructed, or diverted from their pursuit of justice. Sustained public pressure remains essential to ending the culture of impunity that has allowed these crimes to occur and to ensuring accountability for those responsible.

16/06/2026

We are not sailing!
..Not yet.

There are claims circulating that the Global Sumud Flotilla is preparing to sail again to break israel’s illegal siege of Gaza. This is not true.

Our commitment remains intact to challenge, disrupt, and help dismantle the imperial systems that occupy, steal, destroy and genocide the Palestinian people. Our challenges lie now on ground work, mobilizing for the freedom of our comrades in Libya and Tunisia, pursuing legal avenues on national and international levels, and learning and rebuilding while planning politically for the greater impact on our future actions.

For Palestine, we won’t stop!
Join the internationalist resistance, join the Global Sumud Flotilla!
gsumud.link/register

15/06/2026

The narrative is collapsing. The world is rising.

The mask hasn’t just cracked, it’s shattered. They can spend $730M on propaganda, but they can’t buy back legitimacy after the world has witnessed a live-streamed genocide. No PR campaign can cover up mass violence that the israeli entity is premised on. The only difference now is that masks are off and they have been emboldened by decades of impunity to commit their crimes in broad daylight. But the world is watching, taking note and rising up.

11/06/2026

On May 24, 10 of our Land Convoy volunteers were abducted by Libyan forces as they neared Sirte to negotiate safe passage of humanitarian aid into Gaza—exactly as previously agreed.

Now, after almost three weeks of being illegally held without charge, sources say their detention in Libya has been extended for the second time.

This is an outrage. And governments must respond.

Pressure officials to act NOW to secure the safe release of these citizens of Spain, Poland, the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, Portugal, Tunisia, and Italy.

11/06/2026

Dr Abu Safiya has been moved into solitary confinement after his lawyers appealed his unlawful detention without charge or trial.
This is not an “administrative measure” it’s psychological and physical punishment.

The targeting and imprisonment of Gaza’s healthcare workers is part of a wider system of violence and impunity. Gaza cannot be rebuilt while medical workers are held hostage.

Free Dr Abu Safiya. Free them all.

We continue until they are all free.

10/06/2026

For decades, israel has ravaged the land and life in Palestine and spun a story of victimhood for itself on one hand. At the same time, they deny and attempt to annihilate the Palestinian people on the other hand.

October 7 was the beginning of the floodgates opening to reveal to the rest of the world the very basis of Israeli colonialisation — theft of land and the massacre of the Palestinian people and especially in Gaza.

Moving back in time to understand the origins of the colonial catastrophe that befell Palestine, at a global level of awareness unprecedented, the manicured and well-funded image of a “democratic israel” has begun to unravel.

There is no spinning back from here.

09/06/2026

09/06/2026

It is unacceptable that people can be unlawfully kidnapped, whether at sea or on land, simply for trying to reach Gaza to deliver aid to a deliberately starved and besieged people. A people besieged by the same occupation force that has and continues to obliterate Gaza raining terror and bombs and massacring entire families and communities.

It is unacceptable that solidarity expressed as a humanitarian gesture to relieve and reach the people of Gaza, locked up in the world’s largest open air prison as the israeli war machine continues to ravish their lives, is criminalised.

People of all walks of life, throughout the globe, have started a hunger strike in solidarity with the 10 activists kidnapped and held as political hostages for trying to reach the people of Gaza to deliver aid, ambulances and solidarity in a world that only wants to exterminate them.

The crimes committed in Gaza are unacceptable. The criminalization of solidarity of those that refuse to watch and comply is unacceptable.

For our collective liberation, we will not stop.

Support the hunger strikers. Demand their governments to more to ensure their release. The ten political hostages come from the following countries:

Argentina
Italy
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Tunisia (resident of Canada)
United States
Uruguay

Visit gsumud.link/FreeThe10 to send an email asking your foreign ministry to act.

07/06/2026

🕊️ Mehdi is released.

After nearly three weeks of illegal detention, Mehdi Bouzguenda has been released and reunited with his friends and family in Tunisia. We celebrate his freedom.

But 10 of our kidnapped volunteers remain detained in Benghazi. Their immediate release is non-negotiable.

And they are not alone. Nearly 10,000 Palestinian prisoners are held by the israeli regime.

Every single day, tens of thousands of people around the world are detained unjustly, their rights ignored, their suffering invisible.

We will not look away.

None of us are free until all of us are free. Mobilize. Keep the pressure on.

🔗 gsumud.link/FreeThe11

07/06/2026

Respond Crisis Translation has been on the frontlines of political, environmental, and economic disasters across the world.

In Gaza, has provided translation services for people in prison, seeking asylum or accessing remote health services.

RCT stepped in to assist the 2026 Global Sumud Flotilla by providing interpreting services at vital training sessions and translating resources for the thousands of activists involved in the movement.

RCT mobilizes to serve the most marginalised while developing a paid, local workforce on the ground in any crisis.