This frame grab from video released by the Global Sumud Flotilla shows Israeli navy soldiers boarding one of the flotilla's vessels as it approached the coast of Gaza early Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Hundreds of Israeli police officers were deployed Thursday to the southern port of Ashdod to process some 450 international activists detained by Israeli naval forces hours earlier in ...

Italians held a major strike on Friday in solidarity with a flotilla that was intercepted by the Israeli Navy while carrying humanitarian aid towards the Gaza Strip. The strike caused major disruption ...

Israeli navy forces boarded most of the vessels and detained dozens of activists and a number of European lawmakers aboard a flotilla attempting to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza on Thursday, drawing ...

The Israeli navy has stopped a flotilla of more than 40 ships carrying activists and aid supplies for Gaza. Among the hundreds of participants was Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. The fleet, ...