{"id":119535,"date":"2026-05-18T14:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/119535\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:57:16","slug":"israeli-navy-seizes-gaza-bound-flotilla-as-commandos-board-boats-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/119535\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Navy seizes Gaza-bound flotilla as commandos board boats at sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israeli naval forces, led by the elite Shayetet 13 commando unit, moved on the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF)<\/a> on Monday, boarding vessels and detaining activists in an operation that was still unfolding as footage emerged from the scene.<\/p>\n

The video, captured on the activists’ own cameras and shared in their posts, showed Israeli forces stepping onto the decks as detainees were transferred to a larger Israeli Navy vessel and routed toward the port of Ashdod on Israel’s coast.<\/p>\n

The interception followed a public<\/a> demand earlier that day from Israel’s Foreign Ministry calling on the convoy to change course and turn back immediately. The flotilla did not turn back. The Navy went in.<\/p>\n

What makes this story bigger than the boarding itself is the case Israel<\/a> began building before a single commando hit the water.<\/p>\n

The Foreign Ministry framed the convoy not as a humanitarian mission but as a “provocation for the sake of provocation,” naming two Turkish groups behind it, Mavi Marmara and IHH, and noting that IHH has been designated as a terrorist organization. The ministry’s accusations went further still, tying the flotilla directly to two of the most contested issues currently on the table: Hamas’s refusal to disarm, and President Trump’s peace plan.<\/p>\n

According to Israel, the boats were sent to divert attention from the disarmament question and to obstruct progress on that specific diplomatic effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli naval forces, led by the elite Shayetet 13 commando unit, moved on the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[38,3748,496,23848,1411,40877,37,6075,25948],"class_list":["post-119535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-ministry","tag-gaza","tag-global-sumud-flotilla","tag-hamas","tag-ihh-terrorist-organization","tag-israel","tag-israel-navy","tag-shayetet-13"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116596168679334511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}