Freedom Flotilla: Breaking the Siege is an International Responsibility That Cannot Be Delayed

The following statement was initiated by Samidoun Brazil, the Masar Badil: Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement in Brazil, and the Palestinian Women’s Movement – Alkarama:

Freedom Flotilla: Breaking the Siege is an International Responsibility That Cannot Be Delayed

In the face of a bloody settler-colonial regime that continues to impose a criminal siege on more than two million people in the Gaza Strip amid its ongoing genocide, the Freedom Flotilla is currently sailing once more as a cry of international rebellion and resistance against official silence and the complicity of regimes and international institutions that have become partners in the crime through their silence, cowardice and active complicity. This ship, bearing the name “Madleen,” is not merely a symbolic initiative, but an act of political and popular resistance that clearly declares that breaking the siege is no longer merely a humanitarian issue, but a global liberation battle against Zionist fascism and genocide.

Twelve activists are aboard this siege-breaking ship, from different backgrounds, now heading directly toward the besieged Strip, despite open Zionist threats of arrest and deportation. These threats are not only assaults on the freedom of movement and humanitarian work, but a brazen challenge to the global conscience and to the right to resist a colonial system that has defied all international laws and conventions for decades.

What is happening in Gaza is not merely a siege, but an ongoing crime of genocide, treated by the so-called “civilized world” as though it were a natural and unremarkable circumstance. Silence, at this moment, is betrayal. Neutrality is complicity. And relying on official international institutions that have proven their total incapacity is a continuation of the imperial logic of domination and subjugation practiced by the imperialist powers led by the United States, which aims to ensure the hegemony of the Zionist project through weapons, money, and political support.

We are not in need of new denunciation statements or hollow conferences. We are in need of direct mass mobilization and organized international escalation: blockading Zionist embassies, boycotting occupation companies, shutting down ports that export weapons to Israel, supporting Palestinian liberation movements, and joining all forms of civil and active resistance that declare: enough is enough.

This Freedom Flotilla is a manifestation of the will of the people, and a continuation of the 2010 flotilla, in which occupation forces assassinated ten martyrs aboard the “Mavi Marmara” ship. No one was held accountable. No one was punished. Because the system that rules this world was built on the logic of force, not justice. But the peoples are capable of breaking this logic once they decide to act, rather than simply observe.

Yes, “Israel” threatens. Yes, it may arrest, deport, and attack. But every shackle on the wrist of an activist aboard this flotilla is further evidence of the brutality of the entity and the failure of its deceptive propaganda. And every inch the flotilla advances on its way to Gaza is an open call for political and popular disobedience—against imperialism, against silence, and against defeat.

We urge:
Immediate and effective international mobilization to lift the siege on Gaza is not a choice—it is a revolutionary duty.
And history will not forgive the complacent.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Masar Badil: The Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement
Palestinian Women’s Movement – Alkarama