{"id":614133,"date":"2026-04-29T23:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/614133\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:13:09","slug":"israel-intercepts-global-sumud-boats-demands-activists-halt-their-mission-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/614133\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel intercepts Global Sumud boats, demands activists halt their mission | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"avatar\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/al_jazeera_staff_150119130629458\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777504389_212_2017-06-08T131939Z_1189275883_RC11B0FE7F20_RTRMADP_3_GULF-QATAR-JAZEERA-1714943623.jpg\"   aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published On 29 Apr 202629 Apr 2026<\/p>\n<p>Israeli military forces have intercepted Global Sumud boats using jamming technology and armed boarding teams to halt the humanitarian fleet in the middle of the Mediterranean, according to organisers and Israeli media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur boats were approached by military speedboats, self-identified as \u2018Israel\u2019, pointing lasers and semi-automatic assault weapons, ordering participants to the front of the boats and to get on their hands and knees,\u201d the Global Sumud Flotilla aid mission said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoat communications are being jammed, and a SOS was issued.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Israel Army Radio cited an Israeli source as saying it began seizing control of aid ships heading towards Gaza, far from Israeli shores. It added that naval forces had captured seven of 58 vessels in the Global Sumud Flotilla near the Greek island of Crete.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Global Sumud Flotilla has described Israel\u2019s boarding of its vessels as \u201ca straight-up attack on unarmed civilian boats in international waters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Press officer Gur Tsabar, speaking to Al Jazeera from Toronto, Canada, said the sea assault was taking place \u201chundreds of miles from Israel\u201d, with the flotilla being \u201csurrounded and threatened at gunpoint\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is illegal under international law. Israel has no jurisdiction in these waters. Boarding these boats amounts to illegal detention \u2013 potentially kidnapping on the high seas,\u201d said Tsabar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s critical that all governments act now. Every government has an obligation to protect the over 400 civilians on board and to uphold international law. Silence in this moment is absolute complicity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera Arabic reported that the Israeli army has issued warnings to activists on board the flotilla\u2019s ships, demanding they return immediately, and threatening to intercept the ships and obstruct their arrival \u201cby all possible means\u201d if they continue sailing.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"0\">Gaza has been devastated by more than two years of Israel\u2019s genocidal war, which killed more than 72,500 Palestinians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published On 29 Apr 202629 Apr 2026 Israeli military forces have intercepted Global Sumud boats using jamming technology&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":614134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,803,2563,129,3,2485,452,453],"class_list":["post-614133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-palestine","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}