As you've probably heard, there is a flotilla of boats heading for Gaza with the intent of thumbing their noses at Israel and delivering aid to Palestinians. Today the flotilla got close enough that several ships, including the one carrying Greta Thunberg, have been boarded.
The Global Sumud Flotilla, as they call themselves, has been issuing panicky messages on X all afternoon. "Emergency Alert!!!!!"
EMERGENCY ALERT!!!!!
— Global Sumud Flotilla ✨ (@GSMFlotilla) October 1, 2025
THE FIRST BOATS OF THE #GlobalSumudFlotilla ARE STARTING TO BE SURROUNDED.
EMERGENCY ALERT!!!!!
— Global Sumud Flotilla ✨ (@GSMFlotilla) October 1, 2025
THE SHIPS OF ISRAEL ARE ENCIRCLING #GlobalSumudFlotilla SHIP, THE ALMA, AND DEMANDING THE #FLOTILLE STOP. ALL SHIPS ARE CONTINUING WITH THE JOURNEY THOUGH UNINTERESTED IN THREATS!
URGENT:
— Global Sumud Flotilla ✨ (@GSMFlotilla) October 1, 2025
SECURITY PROTOCOLS ON THE #GlobalSumudFlotilla ACTIVATED!!!
Greta Thunberg issued her own "Emergency Alert!!!!!!"
EMERGENCY ALERT!!!!!!
— Global Sumud Flotilla ✨ (@GSMFlotilla) October 1, 2025
GRETA THUNBERG FROM THE #GlobalSumudFlotilla AMIDST INTERCEPTION BY ISRAELI NAVY SHIPS!!! THE #FLOTILLE IS ON HIGH ALERT!!! pic.twitter.com/iKJOi999ag
This was followed by even more emergency alerts.
EMERGENCY ALERT!!!!!
— Global Sumud Flotilla ✨ (@GSMFlotilla) October 1, 2025
THE SHIPS OF ISRAEL ARE ENCIRCLING #GlobalSumudFlotilla SHIP, THE ALMA, AND DEMANDING THE #FLOTILLE STOP. ALL SHIPS ARE CONTINUING WITH THE JOURNEY THOUGH UNINTERESTED IN THREATS!
Emergency Alert!!!! We have formed a drum circle.
EMERGENCY ALERT!!!!
— Global Sumud Flotilla ✨ (@GSMFlotilla) October 1, 2025
THE CREW OF THE #GlobalSumudFlotilla SHIP, THE ALMA, ARE CURRENTLY SITTING IN A CIRCLE ON THE DECK AWAITING AN IMMINENT INTERCEPTION!!! pic.twitter.com/QS5L3jq0sm
This is actually pitch perfect for a climate alarmist like Thunberg.
#GlobalSumudFlotilla IS EXPECTING INTERCEPTION IN AN HOUR. STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED!!!
— Global Sumud Flotilla ✨ (@GSMFlotilla) October 1, 2025
Israel issued a warning that the ships were headed into an "active war zone" and told them to stand down.
The sole purpose of the Hamas-Sumud flotilla is provocation. Israel, Italy, Greece, and the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem have all offered and continue to offer the flotilla a way to peacefully deliver any aid they might have to Gaza. The flotilla refused because they are not… pic.twitter.com/pLQj1FLIPA
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) October 1, 2025
At that point there was only one thing left to do. Break out the big, red exclamation points. If you thought you'd seen emergency alerts before, you hadn't seen anything like this:
EMERGENCY ALERT!!!
— Global Sumud Flotilla ✨ (@GSMFlotilla) October 1, 2025
INTERCEPTION OF THE #GlobalSumudFlotilla ON INTERNATIONAL WATERS❗❗❗❗ pic.twitter.com/Z3XbrnDOAs
URGENT ❗❗❗
— Global Sumud Flotilla ✨ (@GSMFlotilla) October 1, 2025
THE LIVE FOOTAGE OF MOST SHIPS OF THE #GlobalSumudFlotilla HAVE GONE DARK.
Could they put any more exclamation points in a single tweet? Why, yes, they could. I can't even count all of these.
EMERGENCY ALERT!!!!!!!!!!#GlobalSumudFlotilla SHIP, THE ALMA, HAS JUST BEEN BOARDED BY ISRAELI OCCUPATION FORCES❗❗❗❗❗❗
— Global Sumud Flotilla ✨ (@GSMFlotilla) October 1, 2025
They quickly began hinting that the people on the boats were in danger.
🚨 EMERGENCY ALERT 🚨
— Global Sumud Flotilla ✨ (@GSMFlotilla) October 1, 2025
ISRAELI FORCES HAVE SEIZED #GlobalSumudFlotilla BOAT, SIRIUS. ALL COMMUNICATION IS LOST AND THE CONDITION OF THOSE ON BOARD IS UNKNOWN. URGENT INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE IS NEEDED TO ENSURE THEIR SAFETY AND RELEASE. pic.twitter.com/rTfocaab7i
Jeremy Corbyn, who lost his post as PM over an anti-Semitism scandal within his party, weighted in.
History will side with the flotilla. pic.twitter.com/UlpwWTLexn
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 1, 2025
They seem upset that Great Thunberg's star power isn't bringing them more attention.
All those politicians who supported #GretaThunberg when she championed for the climate are currently acting like she doesn't exist.
— Global Sumud Flotilla ✨ (@GSMFlotilla) October 1, 2025
They claimed Thunberg had been kidnapped.
EMERGENCY ALERT ❗❗❗❗
— Global Sumud Flotilla ✨ (@GSMFlotilla) October 1, 2025
French Member of European Parliament, Emma Fourreau and other crew members of the Alma have been captured by Israel. pic.twitter.com/mksrwYjsnx
Here she is being given a bottle of water and a jacket by Israel. THE MONSTERS!!!!!!!!!!
GRETA THUNBERG HAS BEEN CAPTURED❗❗❗❗❗❗❗ pic.twitter.com/64X9KnjTvD
— Global Sumud Flotilla ✨ (@GSMFlotilla) October 1, 2025
Some of the activists are announcing a hunger strike.
Crew members of a #GlobalSumudFlotilla ship declare hunger strike under arrest. They will not take food from a regime that's starving children!!! pic.twitter.com/1S8YsRnrDC
— Global Sumud Flotilla ✨ (@GSMFlotilla) October 1, 2025
So some of the boats have been stopped and others are continuing toward Gaza. And that's where things stand as I write this. It seems likely that all of the boats will be boarded before they arrive in the next 9-12 hours.
Israel has offered to take and deliver the aid on the flotilla ships to Gaza. Also, Greece and Italy have offered to deliver it to Cyprus where the Catholic Church would deliver it to Gaza.
On Wednesday, the Greek and Italian foreign ministries issued a joint appeal asking the group to transfer its aid supplies to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which would deliver it on their behalf. They said they were concerned that the activists could jeopardize the peace plan that the United States proposed on Monday.
“At this delicate juncture, everyone must refrain from initiatives that could be exploited by those who still reject peace,” they wrote...
Israeli officials had offered to transfer the ships’ cargo to Gaza if they would agree to offload it at an Israeli port or another port in the region. Organizers rejected that offer as disingenuous and said it proved that Israel did not actually consider them to be linked to Hamas.
So that's it. They aren't really concerned about delivering the aid so much as they are about making a bunch of emergency alert messages on social media. This is an anti-Israel PR stunt first and a humanitarian effort second.
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