Activists on board a flotilla of aid ships sailing towards Gaza said late on Wednesday night that that the Israeli navy had begun intercepting their vessels as they approach the Palestinian territory.

The Global Sumud Flotilla, which is also carrying Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla as well as several European lawmakers, consists of nearly 50 boats and 500 activists and is carrying a symbolic amount of humanitarian aid.

Activists said that the Alma and Sirius vessels have been intercepted by the IDF.

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Greg Stoker, an American veteran aboard one of the boats in the flotilla, said around a dozen naval vessels with their transponders off had approached it.

"They are currently hailing our

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