Screenshot from a video showing the towing of the boat to the port of Sour, on June 3, 2026. (Credit: Video sent by Muntasser Abdallah)
SOUTH LEBANON — A boat belonging to the Freedom Flotilla, a humanitarian initiative that aimed to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, was found unoccupied and drifting off the Lebanese coast, according to a video sent by our correspondent in the south.
The Lebanese navy towed it to Sour fishing port. Images obtained by L'Orient-Le Jour show a sailboat adorned with Palestinian flags and the inscription "Stop genocide."
The roughly 50 ships of the latest Freedom Flotilla, which had departed from Turkey on May 14, were intercepted by Israeli forces off the coast of Cyprus on May 18. The 430 activists who were en route to the Palestinian enclave were detained and then deported from Israel a few days later. The northern Gaza Strip is about 200 kilometers south of Sour.
SOUTH LEBANON — A boat belonging to the Freedom Flotilla, a humanitarian initiative that aimed to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, was found unoccupied and drifting off the Lebanese coast, according to a video sent by our correspondent in the south.
The Lebanese navy towed it to Sour fishing port. Images obtained by L'Orient-Le Jour show a sailboat adorned with Palestinian flags and the inscription "Stop genocide."
The roughly 50 ships of the latest Freedom Flotilla, which had departed from Turkey on May 14, were intercepted by Israeli forces off the coast of Cyprus on May 18. The 430 activists who were en route to the Palestinian enclave were detained and then deported from Israel a few days later. The northern Gaza Strip is about 200 kilometers south of Sour.
