Civil Organizations: The Occupation's Piracy on the Fleet of Resilience is a New Crime

SadaNews - The Network of Palestinian Civil Organizations expresses its strong condemnation and denunciation of the piracy by the occupation against the Global Fleet of Resilience, the Spring Mission, which set sail on the fourth of April with the aim of breaking the unjust siege on the Gaza Strip from the shores of Marseille, France, and several Italian ports. The fleet carries over a hundred ships and boats loaded with humanitarian, food, and medical aid in light of the suffocating siege imposed by the Israeli occupation authorities, who continue to prevent the delivery of aid, while defenseless civilians suffer after 28 months of genocide and the agonies of forced displacement, having been forcibly evicted from their homes that have been destroyed and bombarded by the occupation.

The Network of Palestinian Civil Organizations affirms that this humanitarian outcry represents a call for broad international action to lift the siege on the sector and ensure the delivery of aid amid the policies of starvation, in order to save the lives of patients and vulnerable families who are suffering under the weight of the occupation's measures. It also demands a decisive international will to put an end to the continuous violations by the occupation in the Gaza Strip. Additionally, the network holds the occupying government fully responsible for the lives of the activists on board the boats that were seized by the occupying navy early this morning near the Greek shores, marking a new crime by the occupation.

The network also calls for the immediate release of the activists and the boats carrying aid for the people of Gaza, ensuring that it reaches citizens who are starving due to the Israeli siege. The Spring Mission 2026 is the third attempt to break the siege on the sector that has been intercepted and the activists on board have been seized in an act of piracy that reflects the occupation's bullying and its persistent infringement on the most basic human rights, as part of the ongoing genocide against the sector and the Palestinian people. This necessitates the enforcement of international law by imposing international sanctions on the occupying state and holding it accountable for its continuous crimes to achieve international justice through serious accountability that ends the occupation's behavior as if it were a state above international law.