Freedom Flotilla Coalition Meets in Dublin, Announces Expanded 2026 Sailings to Gaza and Calls for Escalated Global Action

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10, December 2025
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[DUBLIN, Ireland] The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), together with global initiatives working to end Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, concluded four days of meetings in Dublin from 5–8 December, 2025.

Delegates from member organizations, coalition working committees, and partner solidarity networks gathered to assess this year’s missions and finalize plans for a dramatically expanded 2026 sailing season. The FFC, formed in 2010 and now composed of 18 national campaigns, has sailed dozens of boats to challenge Israel’s illegal naval blockade of Gaza, including Madleen, Handala and Conscience in 2025.

Meeting participants expressed deep alarm at developments in Gaza following the so-called “ceasefire” which Israel continues to violate with impunity, killing hundreds of Palestinians, including over 70 children, and denying adequate humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, including tents and blankets to help displaced families face the harsh winter weather, medical supplies, and baby formula. We affirmed that ending the genocide, lifting the siege, and dismantling the decades-long system of apartheid and occupation requires coordinated, international civil-society action on a scale not seen before.

This year’s meeting took place just three weeks after the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 2803, which rubber-stamped the Trump plan for Gaza. Its adoption was a historic betrayal—not only of the Palestinian people, but of the very foundations the United Nations claims to defend. Resolution 2803 represents one of the most dangerous attempts in recent history to render international law irrelevant. It does not advance Palestinian rights in any meaningful sense; instead, it installs a neo-colonial trusteeship led by the very powers that have armed, funded, and politically shielded Israel’s atrocities for decades.

“Security Council Resolution 2803 is a moral abdication by the world’s most powerful governments and the very institution that has failed Palestinians for over 80 years,” said FFC Steering Committee member Huwaida Arraf of US Boats to Gaza. “When states fail, people must take action. This is not a time to let up on our work, but rather to intensify our decolonial struggle, broaden our ranks, and turn collective outrage into unstoppable global momentum.”

Another FFC Steering Committee member, Bent Erik Krøyer of Ship to Gaza Denmark, added: “The Freedom Flotilla will sail again in 2026. Not as a symbolic gesture, but as a bold declaration that civil society will not stand by while Gaza is strangled and annihilated. We are preparing more vessels, more international participation, and more coordinated actions than ever before.”

The FFC’s efforts to break the naval blockade on Gaza expanded significantly in 2025, when we were joined by two major new initiatives—the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) and the Thousand Madleens to Gaza (TMTG), resulting in a historic number of ships sailing to challenge Israel’s genocide and unlawful siege on Gaza. Both initiatives participated in the Dublin meetings to coordinate an even larger collective effort for 2026.

Gaza needs us—needs all of us—now more than ever. Ending the siege is not only a political necessity; it is a profound moral duty. We will continue to act, organize, and sail in solidarity until Palestinians in Gaza can live with freedom, dignity, and justice.