Woman who inspired Gaza flotilla says ‘message of humanity’ reached world

Gaza fisherwoman Madleen Kulab says activists whose aid ship was intercepted by Israel delivered ‘noble’ message.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/10/woman-who-inspired-gaza-flotilla-says-message-of-humanity-reached-world


_{Madleen Kulab, the 30-year-old fisherwoman in Gaza who the aid ship Madleen was named after}

For the past week, Madleen Kulab, the 30-year-old fisherwoman and inspiration for the name of the Madleen aid ship, had followed the vessel’s journey with a mixture of hope and anxiety as it sailed towards Gaza’s shores in an attempt to break Israel’s blockade.

Throughout its voyage, Kulab remained in close contact with organisers of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), which launched the vessel.

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For Kulab, the ship’s mission and interception – which have drawn international media attention – reflect the wider suffering of Palestinians in Gaza, one that she says feels never-ending.

“This ship’s story mirrors my own and the story of every tired, worn-out person in Gaza,” she said.
“We are just a media wave – it rises sharply, then fades just as fast, and we are left to face our pain in silence.”

With the detention of the Madleen’s crew members, Kulab said she just hopes for their safety and eventual return home. Thunberg was deported from Israel on Tuesday.

“Their noble message was delivered: The message of humanity reached the world,” she said.

“But I no longer have the words to appeal to anyone to act.”

Gaza’s population is facing starvation, and after Israel partially lifted its strict siege in May, aid hubs have become the site of killings as Israeli soldiers and US security contractors have opened fire on crowds of Palestinians trying to access food.

Day by day, life grows more unbearable, Gaza’s first fisherwoman said.

“I am drowning in suffering amid war and starvation,” Kulab said. “Me, my family and everyone here.”

‘It’s so painful’: Man City’s Guardiola speaks up on Israel’s war on Gaza

Pep Guardiola says the images out of Gaza ‘since the nightmare started’ have left him troubled and feeling ‘so scared’

https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/6/10/its-so-painful-man-citys-guardiola-speaks-up-on-israels-war-on-gaza
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5yxdpw716go
https://halifax.citynews.ca/2025/06/10/manchester-city-manager-pep-guardiola-calls-for-more-attention-on-gaza-suffering/

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says the images of children being killed during Israel’s war on Gaza are “painful” and have left him “deeply troubled”.

The Spanish manager of the English Premier League club urged the world to speak up instead of choosing to stay silent “in the face of injustice” as he addressed an audience after receiving an honorary degree at the University of Manchester on Monday.

“It’s so painful what we see in Gaza. It hurts all my body,” Guardiola said.

“Maybe we think that when we see four-year-old boys and girls being killed by bombs or being killed at a hospital, which is not a hospital any more, it’s not our business. Yeah, fine, it’s not our business. But be careful – the next four- or five-year-old kids will be ours.”

Mentioning his three children – Maria, Marius and Valentina – Guardiola said that every morning “since the nightmare started” in Gaza, whenever he sees his two daughters and son he is reminded of the children in Gaza, which leaves him feeling “so scared”.

About half of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are children.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 17,400 children, including 15,600 who have been identified, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. Many more remain buried under the rubble and are presumed dead.

Many of the surviving children have endured the trauma of multiple wars, and all of them have spent their lives under an oppressive Israeli blockade. Over the past 20 months, Israeli attacks have left their homes in ruins, destroyed their schools, and overwhelmed their healthcare facilities.

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Nearly half of Gaza’s children are suicidal, according to a War Child Alliance survey, a finding that matches the experiences of doctors on the ground.

“I surveyed 65 healthcare workers and all but one said they saw universal psychiatric distress among children,” trauma surgeon Feroze Sidhwa tells Al Arabiya English, who addressed the UN Security Council meeting last week on what he has seen in Gaza working as a MedGlobal volunteer in Khan Younis.

Every hospital in Gaza has been attacked, emptied, or starved of supplies, he says as he describes a collapsed healthcare system, widespread child injuries, and a population facing mass displacement and starvation.

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US official loses cool when asked about ambassador’s comments on Palestine

State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce on Tuesday wasn’t pleased when reporters asked her to comment about a statement made by Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, on the future of the Middle East without an independent State of Palestine. This was after Huckabee said that the US was no longer pursuing the goal of an independent Palestinian state, marking what analysts describe as the most explicit abandonment yet of a cornerstone of US Middle East diplomacy.

Asked during an interview with Bloomberg News if a Palestinian state remains a goal of US policy, he replied: “I don’t think so.”

Tammy Bruce wasn’t pleased when a host of reporters asked her to clarify on this dangerous shift in the US stand on Palestine. She even lost cool and spoke with a Palestinian American journalist with intimidating tone.

Mutiny in David Lammy’s ministry over support to Netanyahu; staff told to resign

In a huge development, as many as 300 Foreign Office staff members at different seniority levels in the UK and embassies and missions around the world wrote to the government expressing their fears that the UK had become complicit in Israeli war crimes in Gaza.

In response, the bosses in the ministry headed David Lammy told the disgruntled staff to either shut up or resign.

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At least 25 aid seekers killed in central Gaza

Israeli forces have opened fire near an aid distribution point by central Gaza’s so-called Netzarim Corridor, according to medical sources speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

This incident is the latest in a string of deadly shootings near aid distribution sites since the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation assumed control of aid operations in late May.


_{Relatives mourn loved ones killed in Israeli attacks near an aid distribution point in central Gaza}

Witness describes deadly chaos at Gaza aid site

Al Jazeera spoke to Jaber al-Hawjeri, a father of six who was near an aid distribution site in central Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor when Israeli forces opened fire.

Desperate for food after running out of supplies, Al Hawjeri said people were “shot at” by what he believes were snipers or drones. “We went to face death for some humanitarian aid, but we were attacked and left without any food,” he said, adding that his nephew was among the wounded.

“Victims were all over the place … The situation is going from bad to worse. We have no hope at all.”

Israeli drone kills 4 displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi

We are getting reports of another deadly attack, this one targeting a tent camp in the al-Mawasi area near al-Qarara town, north of Khan Younis city, according to a Nasser Hospital source who spoke to Al Jazeera Arabic.

Death toll from aid site attack rises to 31: Gaza’s Civil Defence

The death toll in an attack near an aid distribution point in central Gaza earlier this morning is now confirmed to be 31, according to Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for Gaza’s Civil Defence.

About 200 people have been wounded and taken to hospitals, he said, adding that the casualties were a result of “Israeli tank and drone fire”.

_{Palestinians receive their relative’s body, who was killed in an Israeli attack, from al-Shifa Hospital}

Israeli army admits shooting near aid point in central Gaza

The Israeli military statement published in English on Telegram says its troops fired “warning shots” overnight in the area of the Netzarim Corridor where dozens of Palestinians were reported killed and hundreds injured near an aid distribution point.

It claimed that “suspects” were advancing and “posing a threat to the troops”, adding that it is “aware of reports regarding individuals injured, the details are under review”.

The army also said that it was also reviewing reports of shooting by its forces “during daylight hours that corresponds with the footage circulated in the media”.

_{A Palestinian man injured near Netzarim Corridor receives treatment in the courtyard of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza Strip on June 11}

Nine killed in Israeli attack on distribution centre in southern Gaza

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing a source at Nasser Hospital, report that nine Palestinians have been killed by Israeli army fire near an aid centre in southern Gaza’s Rafah governorate.

Earlier, we reported on a separate Israeli attack on an aid distribution point in central Gaza that killed 31 people.

_{A Palestinian wounded by Israeli fire near an aid distribution centre in central Gaza, according to medics, lies at al-Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City, June 11}

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Jordanian doctor injured in Israeli strike near Khan Younis

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing a medical source, are reporting that a Jordanian doctor has been injured in an Israeli attack in the vicinity of the Jordanian field hospital west of Khan Younis in the south of the Gaza Strip.

Israel attacked Nasser Hospital repeatedly in past 6 weeks: MSF

Claire Manera, emergency coordinator for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Gaza, has told Al Jazeera from a field hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah that Israeli air raids around Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis are intensifying every day, “getting closer and closer”.

She recently left the medical facility following Israeli forced displacement orders.

“Just on Monday, there was an air strike which damaged the ceilings of the OT [operating theatre] and IPD sections, plus they shattered the windows of our inpatient department where some of the critical patients are staying,” she said. “So, it is impossible for us to continue working in these conditions.”

Manera said she was concerned “every day” that Israel could directly target the medical facility “because now everything can be struck at any moment without warning”.

“We are seeing this day by day. It is not just the tents of the displaced people and the camps and the schools of people who are running for their lives, but it is still also medical facilities that are being attacked,” she said.

“Nasser [Hospital] has been attacked at least three or four times since I arrived in the last six weeks, and we just don’t know if it will continue to be safe there.”

Hospitals confirm Israel killed 61 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn

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Greta Thunberg back in Sweden after deportation from Israel

Thunberg, one of the 12 activists and journalists who set off in a Gaza-bound humanitarian aid ship that was seized by Israel, is back in her native country after Israel deported her on Tuesday.

Thunberg, who flew to Sweden via Paris, arrived home at about 10:30pm (20:30 GMT) on Tuesday. She was greeted by about 30 cheering supporters waving Palestinian flags amid a large media presence.

As we reported, Thunberg has accused Israel of “kidnapping” her and the others on board the Madleen vessel and treating them in a “dehumanising” way. She stressed that attention should stay on the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza.

She was among the four of the 12 Madleen crew members who accepted deportation terms, according to the legal rights group Adalah. The eight others have been brought before an Israeli Detention Review Tribunal to review the custody orders issued against them.

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Rights group calls detention of Madleen volunteers ‘completely unlawful’

Adalah, The Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, has released a statement, in which it calls on Israel to immediately release the eight detained volunteers and return them either “to the Madleen to resume their humanitarian mission to Gaza or to their countries of origin”.

In Adalah’s view, the law applied by the tribunal, which stated “illegal entry into Israel”, is inapplicable to the volunteers. It said they neither sought to enter Israel nor intended to enter Israeli territorial waters, as their planned route was from Italy’s Sicily to international waters and then directly into the internationally-recognised territorial waters of the State of Palestine, into Gaza.

“The Tribunal dismissed Adalah’s arguments, asserting that the naval blockade on Gaza is lawful under Israeli law and that the volunteers knowingly attempted to breach it”, it said.

Under Israeli law, individuals under deportation orders are detained for 72 hours or more before they are forcibly deported unless they agree to be deported earlier.

However, Adalah says the tribunal has enabled the authorities to “extend detention arbitrarily, potentially for one month … without any further judicial oversight, and in clear violation of international law”.

UN’s Francesca Albanese calls detention of Madleen volunteers ‘arbitrary, unlawful’

The UN’s special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory has said on X that the detention of the eight remaining Madleen volunteers is “arbitrary, unlawful and must be immediately terminated and remedied”.

She added that the countries of the unlawfully detained, “have an obligation to intervene, decisively and without delay”.

In the post, she added a link to the statement issued by Adalah, the Legal Centre for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, that we reported on earlier, which called the detention of the eight individuals “completely unlawful”.

#Madleen. Under international law, the detention of the eight remaining flotilla members is arbitrary, unlawful, and must be immediately terminated and remedied. The boat must be released.
The states of nationality of the unlawfully detained, have an obligation to intervene,… https://t.co/CKUsbHXDcm

— Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt (@FranceskAlbs) June 11, 2025

‘We’ll Go Again’ Organiser of Gaza-Bound Ship Madleen says this is Just the Beginning

Palestine Deep Dive’s Hala Hanina talks to Nicola Jenes, one of the key organisers of the Madleen Freedom Flotilla which has just been intercepted by Israeli occupation forces. They talk about what happened early on Monday morning, what the activists were trying to deliver to Gaza, and what conditions they expect them to be held in.

Jenes says despite the interception the flotilla was a success and that this is just the beginning of the attempt to break Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza. They also discuss the huge global support for the flotilla and how this could change the situation in terms of Western government’s complicity in the siege and genocide.

Nicole Jenes is a content producer, actress and activist residing in Egypt. Hala Hanina is a Palestinian journalist and political activist from Gaza.