Jerusalem, Oct. 2 -- Israel's recent interception of the Gaza Coast bound flotilla mission has received strong global backlash globally, and has triggered widespread condemnation, with governments and activists denouncing the move as a violation of international law and a stark escalation in the ongoing IDF siege of the enclave.
Israeli naval commandos from the elite Shayetet 13 unit boarded more than 40 of the 47 vessels in the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), detaining hundreds of activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and Mandla Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela.
The mission marks the highest-level symbolic opposition of Israel's blockade of Gaza. The flotilla's progress across the Mediterranean Sea garnered the h...