April 13, 2026

Friends and comrades,

Many of us are currently on boats, preparing vessels, or deeply engaged in trainings and logistics, and are therefore unable to hold a meeting today. We wanted to share a brief update:

In the coming days, we will circulate a toolkit with information and messaging guidance to support the flotilla. Please keep an eye on your inboxes.

A core message of the flotilla is this: we must rise everywhere—at sea and on land. We must open Gaza and disrupt the weapons supply chain. April 15 is fast approaching. Many of you have already endorsed the National Tax Day of Action opposing the use of our resources to fund genocide, ICE, and imperial wars. We encourage you to plug in and mobilize. Below, we’re sharing resources from the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).

Flotilla boats are already on the move. It will still be a few weeks before the final leg toward Gaza, and this period is critical for building pressure, raising visibility, and organizing collective action. Below are a few key messaging points to support that effort.

As always, thank you for all you do.

In solidarity and struggle,
US Flotilla Team

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) April 15 Tax Day of Action Tools

Our tax dollars should fund care for our communities, not killing, and together we’re powerful united behind that vision. Here’s how you and your organization are invited to join.

• Check out the Not My Tax Dollars digital toolkit for partners, which includes:
• The shared invest/divest vision with social media graphics
• Ways that local activists and groups can take action in their communities by writing letters and confronting politicians with the voices of all the constituents they’ve ignored
• Sample language for national audiences, including for the “Turn Up the Heat”Mass Movement Call with Rep. Delia Ramirez on Wed. April 15th.

If you can only do one thing: Share the “No War on Iran, No Weapons for Israel, No ICE” digital action tool. You can adapt/use the sample language email blastto share it your audience, to help pressure as many senators as possible ahead of the expected JRD vote [this] week

Flotilla Messaging & Framing

• This is a civilian-led, nonviolent mission to challenge Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza. The flotilla is stepping in where governments have failed to uphold international law.
• While the flotilla carries humanitarian aid, this mission is not simply about delivering supplies. It is about breaking the blockade—ending it once and for all. That is both a legal imperative and a moral one.
• Participants are human rights defenders from around the world, including the United States, acting in full compliance with the law.
• The United States has both a legal and moral obligation to ensure that its weapons are not used to commit human rights abuses. Instead, it has provided Israel with tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer funding while shielding it from accountability. That impunity has brought us to this moment.
• United Nations fact-finding bodies, Special Rapporteurs, leading human rights organizations, and the International Court of Justice have all affirmed that Israel’s blockade of Gaza is illegal and must end. Israel has no right to enforce an unlawful blockade.
• Palestinians have the right to self-determination. U.S. taxpayer dollars should support freedom and human dignity—not fund occupation and oppression.
• We call on the U.S. government and members of Congress to uphold international law, including international human rights and humanitarian law. The United States must ensure that Israel does not violate the rights of U.S. citizens who are acting lawfully to uphold these principles.
• We urge U.S. representatives to publicly call on Israel to refrain from interfering with the flotilla in any way. The U.S. government must send a clear and unequivocal message to Israel to stand down and allow safe passage to Gaza.
• The Flotilla is a direct action challenge to an illegal blockade—and to the systems, institutions, and actors that sustain it. But it is only one front. We must rise everywhere—at sea and on land—to open Gaza and disrupt the weapons supply chain.

From Sea to Port to Street: Break the Siege and Disrupt the Weapons Pipeline

/ 2026 Flotilla, Coalition statements, Featured, News / By FFC volunteer

April 12, 2026

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), alongside the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), Thousand Madleens to Gaza (TMTG), and allied movements across the world, is mobilizing the largest coordinated civilian maritime action in history to break Israel’s illegal and deadly siege of Gaza.

From Marseille to Naples, from Barcelona to ports across the Mediterranean, civilian vessels are already on the move. On April 4, 2026, 20 boats launched from Marseille and on April 10, arrived in Naples, where they were welcomed by and marched with grassroots movements and port workers refusing complicity in siege and starvation. On April 12, 39 boats will launch from Barcelona. In other ports, boats are being readied to join

This is not symbolic. This is direct civilian action to confront a system of apartheid, domination, colonization, and oppression that governments have enabled and protected for decades.

For too long, Israel has acted with total impunity—systematically violating Palestinian human rights, entrenching an illegal occupation, and enforcing a blockade that constitutes collective punishment. That impunity has led us here: to a genocide in Gaza, and now to its expansion into Lebanon and across the region.

Israel targets hospitals, ambulances. homes, schools. mosques, churches, shelters–normalizing systematic attacks on civilian infrastructure that should never be targeted. And the world’s most powerful governments, led by the United States, continue to provide the military, political, economic and diplomatic support that makes these crimes possible.

We refuse to be complicit.

We sail because governments have failed to uphold their legal obligations under international law. We sail because Palestinians deserve to be free. We sail because Palestinian civil society has called on the world to act. We sail because waiting means more death, more destruction, and more normalization of the unthinkable.

But action at sea is not enough.

As boats rise at sea to break the siege and open a corridor to Gaza, civil society must rise on land to shut down the machinery that sustains it. We call on civil society everywhere to mobilize—at ports, factories, corporate offices, and government institutions—to disrupt the global weapons pipeline.

Block the ships carrying weapons.

Refuse to load and unload instruments of war.

Expose and challenge the corporations profiting from genocide.

Demand an immediate arms embargo and accountability under international law.

From dockworkers to students, from legal advocates to frontline organizers, coordinated civilian action can—and already has—interrupted the flow of weapons and forced governments to reckon with their complicity.

This is a moment that demands escalation.

The flotilla is part of a broader global movement—by sea and by land—working to dismantle the systems that enable apartheid, occupation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. We are not only confronting the illegal Israeli blockade on Gaza. We are confronting the entire war machine behind it. This Spring 2026 flotilla is a declaration that civil society will act where governments have failed—on the seas, in the streets, and across the infrastructures of power that sustain violence.

We will not normalize genocide.

We will not accept impunity.

We will disrupt it—everywhere.

For information about Thousand Madleens to Gaza sailing, contact: thousand.madleens@proton.me
For information about the Global Sumud Flotilla, contact : media@globalsumudflotilla.org