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What is the purpose of the many flotillas which have attempted to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza? (The blockade exists to help prevent Hamas receiving weapons shipments.) Organizations which promote flotillas towards Gaza purport to help the “starving” Gazan population by sending them aid and support. There have been many Gaza flotillas which have attempted to gain entrance to Gaza but none have succeeded. As far as Israel is concerned, these boats are a political stunt meant to harm Israel’s reputation. The boats contain negligible amounts of aid but those on board do enjoy tremendous amounts of “virtue signaling”. Despite these malevolent attempts to defame Israel, the boats would be permitted to unload “aid” in a Israeli port near Gaza. But that wouldn’t promote the sanctimonious activists’ anti-Israel cause. Proclaiming “starvation” in Gaza is their ploy to promote hatred of Israel; helping the Hamas terrorists is their “solution”.
There have been at least eight flotillas which have attempted to land in Gaza: in 2010, 2011, 2015, 2018, (3) 2025, and recently in May 2026, when 50 boats were intercepted by Israeli naval forces. As Israel sees it, these events are only PR........