Gaza-bound aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg departs Barcelona after stormy weather turnaround

This is climate activist Thunberg and Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham's second journey to Gaza after being denied entry by the Israeli military in June 2025.

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg departs with other activists on the Global Sumud Flotilla, a humanitarian expedition to Gaza, from the port of Barcelona, Spain on 31 August 2025. | File Photo | Nacho Doce | Reuters

Madrid: A flotilla of dozens of boats loaded with aid for Gaza departed Barcelona port on Monday evening after stormy weather forced them to return to port earlier, Reuters footage showed.

Some of the boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla Mission blew their horns as they left the port.

“Free, free Palestine,” shouted some activists at the port.

Pro-Palestinian activists including climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and Game of Thrones actor Liam Cunningham are on the flotilla of several dozen boats that is aiming to break Israel’s naval blockade and deliver food and humanitarian supplies to the enclave, which has been devastated by nearly two years of war.

Israel has argued that the naval blockade it imposed in 2007 is necessary to stop weapons being smuggled to the Hamas Palestinian militant group. It has described other attempts to break it – including one that included Thunberg in June – as a propaganda stunt in support of Hamas.

(Reporting by Charlie Devereux. Additional reporting by Emma PinedoEditing by Andrei Khalip, Frances Kerry and Sandra Maler)

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