A flotilla carrying aid to Gaza said Israeli forces had on Wednesday intercepted its latest bid to break an Israeli blockade of the war-battered Palestinian territory. “Around 8:30 pm Gaza time (1730 GMT), several vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla, including the Alma, Sirius and Adara, were illegally intercepted and boarded by Israeli occupation forces in international waters,” the flotilla said. The French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot posted on X that Israeli authorities were “currently boarding” the flotilla. Spain’s digital transformation minister, Oscar Lopez, had urged the flotilla not to cross into Israel’s declared exclusion zone, extending 150 nautical miles off Gaza. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the activists “do not represent a danger or a threat to Israel”, and hoped that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Netanyahu’s government will not represent a threat to this flotilla either”.