#flotilla

#flotilla

"They claim to take to the streets for peace, but they insult the memory of a man who was a true defender and builder of peace," she said in a statement.

"Multiple vessels... were illegally intercepted and boarded by Israeli Occupation Forces in international waters," the organisers said in a statement.

Israel's apartheid across the occupied Palestinian territories is "far worse" than the apartheid perpetrated by white nationalists for decades in South Africa, Nelson Mandela's grandson, Mandla Mandela, said in remarks on Wednesday. "Many of us that have visited the occupied territories in Palestine have only come back with one conclusion: that the Palestinians are experiencing a far worse form of apartheid than we ever experienced," said Mandela. "These last two years, what you have been witnessing, is a testament to that."