Formation of a New Fleet in Turkey to Break the Gaza Blockade
Just a few days after the Zionist regime’s violent attack on the Sumud 2 fleet and the crackdown on its activists, human rights groups have mobilized to send a new fleet from Turkish ports to break the blockade on the Gaza Strip.
Zionist sources have reported the initiation of preparations to launch this new fleet, while the naval forces of the Zionist regime are simultaneously preparing to confront it.
On Friday evening, a private plane carrying 59 activists, including 18 Turkish citizens, landed at Istanbul Airport. These individuals had previously been assaulted by Israeli forces in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea while en route to break the Gaza blockade. Upon their arrival, media outlets published statements from some activists, announcing the preparation of a new fleet consisting of 100 to 150 vessels, which are to be assembled in Turkish ports.
Other groups from the Steadfastness Fleet are still on their way to Gaza. For example, a group from the island of Sicily, Italy, as part of the Spring 2026 Mission, has been traveling since April 12 with approximately 39 boats from Barcelona, Spain. The organizers of this fleet intend to deploy over 100 ships and boats from Spanish, Italian, and Tunisian ports in this new phase.
It is worth noting that these developments occur just days after the Zionist regime attacked several vessels of the Sumud 2 fleet in international waters near the Greek island of Crete and abducted dozens of activists on board those ships.
Channel 13 of the Zionist regime’s television has reported that the new fleet will likely depart from Marmaris, Turkey, toward the Gaza Strip. According to the channel, the fleet is being organized by a Turkish humanitarian organization, the same body that previously organized the Mavi Marmara fleet in 2010.
The Zionist channel adds that the Israeli navy has prepared reinforcement units to stop the fleet in time.
The launch of the new aid fleet to Gaza comes as the Zionist regime’s military forces, in suppressing the Sumud 2 fleet, resorted to explicit and excessive violence, deliberately disabling the communication and propulsion systems of the ships to render them immobile.
The equipping of the new fleet in Turkey revives the memory of Zionist violence against the Mavi Marmara fleet — the fleet that set out on May 31, 2010, to break the Gaza blockade but was stormed by Israeli occupiers. In that attack, 10 Turkish activists were martyred, and 56 others were injured. That event caused a deep crisis in diplomatic relations between Tel Aviv and Ankara at the time.
