When Israeli soldiers boarded a Gaza -bound flotilla on Wednesday night, two Glasgow web developers tracked the vessels in real time, drawing millions of global viewers.

As grainy footage from onboard cameras broadcast the raids live on the flotilla’s website, the developers updated the status of the vessels in real-time and posted short videos of each takeover. The clicks were unprecedented, they said: the site registered 2.5 million visits on Wednesday and 3.5 million on Thursday.

“I have never seen numbers like that – not on a website I’ve ever made,” said Lizzie Malcolm, the co-director of Rectangle, a design and software development studio that helped track the vessels on behalf of the organisers.

New Flotilla En Route

The Global Sumud Flotilla was seeking to breach an Israeli

See Full Page