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Brazilian heading to Gaza on the Global Sumud Flotilla
22 September 2025 · 26 min · 130 views · Ionian Sea
Activist in red gear stands on catamaran bow at twilight.
What this video covers
Paulo Siqueira, a Brazilian sailor living in Italy, speaks from aboard the sailboat Aurora — a Bavaria 50 — while midway through a roughly 1,200-nautical-mile passage from Sicily towards Gaza as part of the Global Sumud Flotilla.4:26 The flotilla, assembled from an initial pool of 30,000 applicants, comprises approximately 50 vessels (mostly sailboats, five motorboats) averaging 40–42 feet, with the largest a 30-metre ketch.2:39 The fleet departed Barcelona in early September, stopped in Tunisia for repairs, regrouped in southern Sicily, and is collecting additional boats near western Crete before continuing east.2:25 At 4.5 knots average speed, Siqueira estimates roughly 10 more days at sea to reach Gaza — barring forced interception in international waters.10:33 Vessel positions are tracked via Garmin devices through a system maintained by Architecture for Entities, visible at globalsumodflotilla.org.5:17 Siqueira describes an incendiary drone attack on a flotilla vessel in Tunisia, confirmed by onboard video, and reports nightly drone overflights continuing near Greece, where Israel maintains a drone training base.14:08 The flotilla carries humanitarian aid but frames its primary goal as symbolically breaking Israel's land, air, and sea blockade to demonstrate that a humanitarian corridor is possible.Watch
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