![The crew of the Mikeno, who may have broken the siege of Gaza [UPDATE: Kidnapped by Israel]](https://media.piefed.social/posts/DX/TV/DXTVJoLJ2NGS7GL.jpg){kind=link}
Of 42 ships in the Global Sumud Flotilla, one made it into the waters outside Gaza. It remains unknown whether they made it to Gaza or if they have been arrested by the Israeli navy just when they were about to enter.
While not officially confirmed, the following footage allegedly shows their arrival in Gaza:
syzito.xyz/@fkamiah17/115304225699538245
edit: It seems this post has been taken down, it was probably a video from another occasion.
Other sources claim that the Mikeno too has been captured by Israel: https://mastodon.social/@Al_Quds_News14/115303483176696689
According to Israel via Al Jazeera, they have seized “all but one” of the vessels carrying aid:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/9/2/live-geta-thunberg-once-more-on-board-sumud-flotilla-sailing-for-gaza
This could refer to the Marinette, which is still just north of Cairo, or to the Mikeno, whose status is not confirmed:
https://globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/
In either case these people are heroes. The person on the right side (their left) top row is the Fediverse’s own @Vegard@fribygda.no, who is also the source of this image: https://fribygda.no/@Vegard/115299846437410236
Bonus picture: https://fribygda.no/@Vegard/115299851567351974
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Update:
It is with heavy hearts and sadness that we announce the Global Sumud Flotilla vessel “Mikeno” was seized by the Israeli Navy.
The captain, a hero, defied direct Israeli orders to shut his engine down and seize progression. He then went completely dark, shutting off all electronics and maneuvering past their blockade. The “Mikeno” made it within 7NM of the coast of Gaza. The ship was then intercepted, seized, and boarded by naval commandos deployed from multiple Israeli warships with drones flying overhead.
Source:
https://t.me/gsfnews/217
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Fuck you
And what did you achieve today? Other than disparage people for fighting for their beliefs, and for what’s right? Not every battle is a victory, but if you don’t even show up, the war is lost.
I setup a python script that runs on my laptop to use my solar batteries API, so now I automagically export solar power I generated during the day every night offsetting co2 emissions during the peak of fossil fuel usage between 6-8pm (My state of Queensland is unfortunately lagging all the other states in its addiction to coal power)
My next pay I’ll be donating to UFL_Robin’s charity to help get supplies to Ukrainian soldiers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1nun3c7/its_the_tuesday_raffle_up_this_week_a_classic/
I’ve already donated over $1000 to https://protectavolunteer.com/, https://www.weaponstoukraine.com/, https://u24.gov.ua/sky-sentinel and others.
I’m also saving up for this bad boy:
https://zecar.com/reviews/australian-made-v2g-v2h-chargers-to-launch-in-2025
The latest updates suggest they can somehow get v2g working even with cars that don’t support it, meaning I’ll soon be able to save 100% of my solar output to my ev’s battery and export a good chunk of it during peak fossil fuel times, I am already effectively climate positive (I reduce co2 emissions more than I output) but this will take it up a notch
So yeah, just because I think dumb publicity stunts are dumb publicity stunts doesn’t make me an evil fascist nazi… but it does here so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Wow, so you could be awesome but still choose to be a dick. Some people are born dicks but you actually choose to be one. It makes it even worse.
You’re truly a empty person. Your family and friends will be ashamed to have known you.
https://palestineaid.org/donate/ could you also donate for the palestinian cause? Only for aid, not weaponry.
Why in the hell would I (a secular atheist who DETESTS Islam) donate to a group of people that HATE me?
These guys yeah?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgknpzrkyvno
These lovely people? They come to our countries and terrorise us?
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cx2703lnww4t
and of course, need I remind anyone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks
Ukraine was minding its own business, literally dealing with its own politics and sense of direction (towards the EU instead of towards Russia) which Russia saw as a weakness and chance to attack, Hamas and the Palestinians saw a public holiday when the guard was down, many of the army would be taking some time off and invaded killing as many civilians as they could get their hands on. I’ll never forget seeing the Palestinian government denying it had shot up a music festival when I was watching videos recorded by the same terrorists of them shooting up the music festival
So yeah, not a chance, I’d rather donate to starving children in Sudan:
or aid to west African countries fighting Islamists, or any of the 1000 better places to send money than Palestine, a place whose population largely still support Hamas, think Oct 7 was a conspiracy and whose government as of a week ago still thinks all their own civilian deaths are worth it:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/senior-hamas-official-defends-high-price-of-oct-7-for-palestinians-saying-attack-created-golden-moment/ar-AA1Nje2V
So yeah… nah
Well here is one more wikipedia link for you to consider
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas
Assuming that you are not arguing in bad faith and not full of bs, you can not defeat a fascist dictatorship while trying to wash away the murder and blood of another one. Unless tolerance for fascist dictatorships are completely eradicated from the world, there will always be a next one waiting to prey on weaker countries.
But I don’t have much faith for a discussion with you. Given that you equate criticism of Israel with support of Hamas or not caring for Sudanese genocide, I am almost 100% sure you are discussing in bad faith. If you really cared about Ukraine or Sudan, you would also care about the same terror being forced onto Palestinian children and civilians.
Yeah, i’ve suggested donating to palestine just to see your response, and i’m not suprised. Shame on you, racist scumbag, may your life be short and sad.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do more research, I knew the situation in Sudan was bad but to see it has killed 100x more than the ‘genocide’ in Gaza has:
The numbers are staggering.
I mean two things can be bad at once? Israel is conducting a genocide no matter how you slice it.
No, genocide good because ISLAM BAD (even if not all palestinian people are islamist or even religiously extremist) >:(
No point arguing with .ml’s, they’re bad faith actors and social disruptors. Quite literally everything you’ve said is true, validly supported by reasoning, and a reasonable position.
I don’t have money to donate, but I’d never donate to an org if I thought there was even a CHANCE it would end up in the hands if or for the benefit of globally recognized terrorists.
You’re disgusting.
Since you’re on an Aussie instance, I’ll adjust my phrasing:
Were you born this way, or did you undergo some sort of training regimen to become such an absolute cunt?
Not a lot is involved, it’s just here there’s such a lopsided progressive left demographic, I’d say 95% left to progressive left with only 5% centre or centre right, meaning for all intents and purposes… this is a left wing echo chamber.
You guys react the same way to me saying Gretyl is dumb the same way right wingers react when I say Trump is a used car salesman and anyone who believes him should get their brain checked out for signs of life
S’all the same to me
It’s fair to say this social space tends to lean far left. But at the same time, outside of tankie circles, many users are pointedly not dogmatic about it, and in fact have a strong distaste for dogmatic approaches used by both the far right AND far left.
Thunberg is reductive in her approach to issues and geopolitics outside of climate matters, sure - but her ideology is based in humanism and trying to be a decent person while advocating for the human dignity of others, so I personally am willing to give her a rather generous benefit of the doubt. To compare her and her supporters to orangeboi and his is… well, kinda dumb. Thunberg’s supporters care about the environment and human rights. Orangeboi’s supporters care about white people being on top of society, and hurting “the bad people”, where “the bad people” is left intentionally extremely nebulous (more succinctly, they’re fascist supporters and enablers). This is not really an apples to apples comparison.
My previous comment calls you out (admittedly crudely) for expressing utter disdain and contempt for an ongoing human rights catastrophe and genocide, and I stand by that comment. I’m calling you out for being callously indifferent to the rampant suffering that’s being spitefully inflicted on a civilian population by a state actor.
Based af. If you don’t echo the call, you don’t get all the epic updoots and you piss off all the other mouth-breathers.
As a leftist, this shit is RAVAGING the fuckin’ leftist cause. Why the fuck would I care about any Islamic population when if they have power — they would kill me for apostasy?
You talk about islam as though it’s a monolith, which is ignorant. Have you met any muslims? Do you know the difference between the Taliban & Hamas & the gov’t of Iran? Shia vs Sunni?
I hate religion as much as the next edgy leftist, but believing the genocide of a people is somehow not noteworthy or should continue unabated is reprehensible
Yes, I’ve met muslims. Yes, I’m familiar with the differences between the Taliban and Hamas, and how Hamas is an even more violent offshoot of another violent Islamic terrorist the Muslim Brotherhood. I’m familiar with the differences between Shia and Sunni. My strong distaste for Islam is, unfortunately, backed by research into the faith, its origins, and the history of its effect on populations of the world.
Didn’t say it wasn’t noteworthy, nor did I say it should continue. I only said that if it were up to them I would be dead, apostasy is punishable by death under Sharia law and atheism counts as apostasy.
Further, this is only one of many genocides going on in the world at the moment, and while still sad and condemnable, is less “effective” than others — say the genocide of the Uyghurs in China, or the countless genocidal/humanitarian crises in Africa affecting Muslims and non-muslims alike on a scale that dwarfs Palestine/Israel. How/why should I give more than a second of thought to things I have no control over and don’t affect me or my loved ones on the other side of the world? Again, tragic stuff, but tf am I gonna do? Virtue signal for internet points? Nah, enough people doing it already and it’s inescapable.
It’s only “RAVAGING the fuckin’ leftist cause” because the politicians who are supposedly on the “left” are reacting to the situation with an infuriatingly neoliberal and Kissinger-esque geopolitical mentality that simply does not align with:
Or more simply: politicians are continuing to be fucking stupid and miss the moment.
Wow, that’s pretty overtly prejudiced.
Here’s a thought: pull your head out of your ass, zoom out, and maybe consider that the problem is the people leading the regimes and religions, and that brutal suppression will only beget more brutal suppression - perhaps to you and yours at some point?
I am absolutely NOT saying “invite hardcore Sharia law into your country and neighborhood” - Sharia (as well as the Christian and Jewish flavors of hardline religious law) are categorically fucking stupid and societally caustic, and should be ideologically starved to death to the greatest extent possible. But I AM saying that fighting ideology with bombs is a dumb fucking idea, because all you’re going to do is make those radical ideologies run rampant, and (if you’ll pardon the darkly humorous pun) explode in popularity.
I mean, it’s not prejudiced. It’s in the Quran and discussed amongst Imams/Islamic scholars. Sure, the watered-down Twelvers aren’t going around beheading people in the US, but it’s still a principle of Twelver belief to amass/promote all Islamic growth, including the sects of Islam that do want Sharia law.
Look at Dearborn, Michigan and how the majority Muslim community and city council and mayor are treating non-Muslim citizens, particularly those who are LGBTQ+ immediately upon gaining political/administrative power.
With Islam, the issue is both ideological and based in leadership at the moment. The same goes for Mormons and Hassidics, but the more general and basic versions of those religions don’t promote or encourage the growth of the more “extreme” sects quite like Islam does. Christianity certainly has a chokehold on the US and it’s being wielded in an awful way by the admin. Yet at the root of it the life and teachings of Mohammed and Jesus are RADICALLY and I mean INSANELY RADICALLY different to the point of moral disgust at Mohammed and a passive indifference towards Jesus.
At no point have I said violence solves anything here. I agree that it creates only more radicals/gives them reason for retaliation — justified or not.
100%
I’m not some billionaire throwing money around like it’s nothing, I can only donate so much, and when there are a million worthy causes, why would I want to donate towards a group of people who would literally kill me?
This guy is just protesting his crappy government and was tortured and killed, imagine if I said a bad word about Islam or Muhammad? I don’t even want to imagine
Props to the dude for trying. A shame the 2018 UN vote got fucked up by, oh let’s see: China, Russia, and every Islamic State — preventing Hamas from appropriately being designated a terrorist org.
Dude might still be alive had it been successful because then we wouldn’t have morons swaying public opinion by saying dogwhistle genocidal call shit like “From the river to the sea” lol. But no, since it was never designated, people now make arguments that those fuckers are a “resistance force” and no intelligent conversations can be had 90% of the time.
Zionist clown
You’re reading about this and engaging on it, so at the very least they’ve raised awareness for the issue.
This clown with the “donate to Ukraine” bio over here giving doomer vibes.
Wtf is this comment? Why is helping Ukraine “doomer vibes”?
I pro-Ukraine and pro-Palestine but I’ve heard enough about how Ukraine is just buying time and how it’s all over.
I don’t think we should give up Palestine just like Ukraine. There’s a fundamental right to both for me.
So I’m just pointing out how he’s saying it’s pointless for Palestinians but okay for Ukrainians.
I somehow missed him saying it’s pointless for Palestinians. I assumed they meant it in a way we Europeans constantly shit on people for doing photo-ops with Zelensky instead of real action. These things are pointless when the EU spends more money buying russian gas than they spend on defending Ukraine. It’s all a front show.
This is very false. Ukraine is actually getting quite desperate with unpopular law changes like forcing men to return to Ukraine or lowering/increasing minimum military age, not even talking about deep strikes which was a big no from many, but Ukraine can no longer afford the slow war, they cannot win by attrition, hence the constant escalation.
The current hot topic seems to be the fact that Russia has turned Zaporizhzhya NPP into a dirty bomb that can go off if backup generators fail. Yes, you read that correctly. The Europe’s largest nuclear power plant is being kept active (non-generating, but active in nuclear), only cooled by backup generators which can fail at any moment (backup generators aren’t designed to be ran for multiple days in a row), followed by a nuclear meltdown, but no one talks about it because apparently it’s no longer a trendy topic, as confirmed by you.
Ukraine did nothing wrong
Neither did the child population of Palestine, nor likely the majority of its adult population.
Firstly Gaza was handed back by the Israeli’s to the people of Gaza, they had an opportunity to really show the world what a peaceful group of people they were but instead elected militant islamic terrorists ‘Hamas’ who then immediately began carrying out activities attacking Israel, hence why:
secondly… actually I can’t be bothered anymore
Just say you’re pro genocide for brown people dude, say you think arabs are sub human, white supremacist.
So, any country that has at least one terrorist organization in it is forfeit? Is there any country in the world with 0 terrorists? Even limiting it to only internationally recognized terrorists?
He said “elected”, dude. Learn to read. This is why it has been hard for me to take any sides in this conflict, because both sides have clearly shown they can’t behave.
And people here call me a fucking fascist or genocide supported after I said I don’t support violence. Some of you are sometimes emitting stupidity on levels that makes AI look smart.
They were elected long before they were considered terrorists. If trumps maga is eventually labelled terrorists, does that extend to all previous conservatives?
Voter rarely know what they’re actually voting for in the long term.
Getting downvoted for this is insane and shows you’re just getting barraged by Russian symps.
please go back to reddit, there you and your friend can be as fascist/zionist as you’re trying to be here while receiving as much updoots as you want :)
Damn bro, you’re one pressed Russian-sympathizing tankie arentcha?
Good thing you have the whole .ml instance and don’t have to be here.
No. Russia is a capitalist nation, which i and other ml’s do not sympathize with. So fuck off, go back to reddit.
Ah so you’re a Zionist when you’re not a dogwhistling racist about Aboriginal peoples.
Stay classy ikt.
Thanks man, trying my best out here
Europe’s stance on Israel shifts as pro-Gaza protests sweep the continent - The Independent
In a later comment, you refer to this flotilla as a publicity stunt in what appears to be a derisive way. It um appears to be garnering publicity.
We won’t know what the outcome will be for a while yet, but governments are shifting their alignment and listening to citizens in a way that they have not been for the last 2 years. This flotilla is appreciably moving the needle in a way that has not been accomplished before. It ain’t nothin’.
Shit you might be right 😳
Baby, I know it.