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Israel’s lies continue despite the Global Sumud Flotilla’s humanitarian aid being a documented fact
ISRAEL’S LIES CONTINUE DESPITE THE GLOBAL
SUMUD FLOTILLA’S HUMANITARIAN AID BEING A
DOCUMENTED FACT
October 3, 2025
Two years into a genocide, Ben-Gvir and Israel’s stance that the Global Sumud Flotilla carried little to no humanitarian aid is not just verifiably false; it is obscene. The boats were meticulously documented, loaded with medical supplies, food, and other life-saving goods for people in Gaza being systematically starved by Israel. Journalists, human rights monitors, parliamentarians, and aid organizations have shown undeniable evidence of the aid on board. Israel’s denial is nothing more than another entry in a long record of lies that media outlets must stop laundering through phrases like “Israel says.”
The Global Sumud Flotilla has always been clear: our mission is to break the blockade and open a humanitarian corridor for sustained aid deliveries. The supplies we carried were both real and representative: real because they were urgently needed, and representative because civilian ships cannot carry the full scale of aid Gaza requires, which only becomes possible once the blockade is lifted.
Israel’s disinformation is not new. This is the same regime that claimed it was not bombing hospitals, not starving Palestinians, not obstructing convoys, not executing civilians and aid workers, not burying 15 paramedics and their ambulances in a shallow grave. Every one of those lies has been exposed—as we’ve seen repeatedly, every accusation is a confession from the Israeli government. Human rights organizations, UN agencies, and countless photos, videos, and testimonies confirm the truth: Israel is deliberately weaponizing hunger, blocking aid, bombing food distribution centers, and condemning families to death by starvation.
To repeat Israel’s falsehoods today is to be complicit in covering up genocide. Media outlets must finally break from the reflex of treating Israeli statements as credible. There is no journalistic obligation to amplify propaganda that has been disproven again and again, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian lives.
This systematic smear campaign being waged against the flotilla is not about aid; it is about Israel trying to erase the evidence of its crimes by delegitimizing those who seek to uphold international law. The truth cannot be erased. The images of famine, skeletal children, empty shelves, and desperate families under siege are seared into the world’s conscience.
The facts are clear: the flotilla carried humanitarian aid, Gaza is being deliberately starved, and Israel is perpetrating a genocide. It is the duty of the international community to stop perpetuating Israel’s lies and start acting to end its blockade, its famine, and its genocide.
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A sampling of verified pictures and videos of aid aboard GSF ships can be found here.
Flotilla prisoners are expected to be taken to one of Israel’s most notorious torture prisons
Members of the Global Sumud Flotilla abducted by the Israeli military in international waters on Wednesday night are expected to be transferred to one of Israel’s most notorious torture prisons. The Ketziot prison, located in the Negev Desert, has been the site of repeated abuses against Palestinian prisoners.
In 2021, footage emerged of dozens of Palestinians shackled and thrown to the ground, while Israeli guards kicked and punched them in turn. No officers were ever charged.
In 2023, a 38-year old Palestinian prisoner was beaten to death by a group of guards who wore helmets to disguise their faces. Thaer Abu Asab reportedly received a blow so hard that “a piece of his skull fell to the ground and blood filled the floor of the room,” according to his brother. Nineteen officers were investigated. None were prosecuted. Five we simply transferred to another unit.
And just last year, Israeli Human Rights Group B’Tselem released a report containing the testimonies of 12 Palestinians taken to Ketziot since October 7th. They described beatings with batons, torture, humiliation and sexual violence, as well as lack of sanitation and food, a failure of the guards to meet their basic needs.
Israel’s Flotilla prisoners are expected to be incarcerated in the prison for several days as a result of the Yom Kippur holiday, meaning that Israel will not begin deportations until Monday or Tuesday. Clare Azzougrah, whose 72-year-old RAF-veteran father Malcom Ducker has been detained, was told that all were being moved to the prison because “there are so many of them and they need to keep them together.” She added, “But I don’t believe them for a second.”
Novara Media has particular concerns for the safety of its journalist, @Kieran_Andrieu, a British journalist of Palestinian descent whose six siblings live in the Occupied Territories. Andrieu had intended, for his own safety, to sign a voluntary deportation order, allowing him to leave the country immediately. Now, given his heritage, Novara Media fears his health and life may be in grave danger if moved to the prison.
The British Foreign Office has said it is “very concerned”.
