500 activists sailed toward Gaza. This is what happened.
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 747 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
What is it actually like on board a flotilla to Gaza, knowing you'll likely be targeted and imprisoned? Until now, it's a story that's been told mostly in fragments, one vertical video at a time. This is the inside story of what it is like on the Global Sumud Flotilla: the drone attacks, the safety drills, the calls home, and the Palestinians in Gaza waiting to see if civilians can break a siege backed by a superpower. This episode is part of a three-part documentary series, The Flotillas, by The Take and AJ+.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | What is it like to sail into a blockade? |
| 0:15.2 | Would you? |
| 0:18.1 | That's the goal of the global Samud flotilla, the largest ever in the movement to break the siege on Gaza. |
| 0:26.6 | Until now, it's a story that's mostly been told in fragments, one vertical video at a time. |
| 0:33.9 | This is the flotillas Part 2. |
| 0:42.0 | In episode one, we told you the history of the movement. |
| 0:45.9 | In this episode, we're taking you aboard. Our government has failed us. |
| 0:57.0 | It is up to us, the people to stand up and say none in our name. |
| 1:03.0 | We will not allow genocide. |
| 1:05.0 | We will not go! |
| 1:09.0 | In the Spanish port city of Barcelona, the countdown to departure has begun. |
| 1:14.9 | This is the launch point for the flotella known as the Global Samud, an Arabic word for steadfastness. |
| 1:22.6 | Among the activists are Yasim and Ajar of Germany, Tiago Avila of Brazil, and Greta Tunberg of Sweden. |
| 1:30.3 | Right now we are doing the final preparations before we will departing again towards Gaza |
| 1:37.3 | to deliver humanitarian aid and to attempt to break Israel's illegal siege on Gaza and open up a humanitarian corridor. |
| 1:43.3 | We will do it with dozens of boats, with people from all over the world. |
| 1:48.0 | We will start in Barcelona, and then we will be joined by many boats in other ports around the Mediterranean Sea. |
| 1:54.0 | They've sailed to Gaza before, but this mission is the largest by far. |
| 2:01.6 | The Global Summit Flotilla is a coalition of coalitions. |
| 2:04.6 | It brings people as well from many, 80 different countries that were trying to go on the global |
| 2:09.6 | march to Gaza and brings people from the Freedom Flotilla coalition as well. |
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