In the night of 29-30 May, as was foreseen by Ramiro Giganti, Israeli forces illegally detained some twenty boats of the flotilla and arrested nearly 200 activists - trade-unionists, healthworkers, solidarity activists, electd representatives. They rendered the boats unusable.
Demonstrations in many countries of the evening of 30 April called for the liberation of all these activists and for the flotilla to continue its mission of bring even symbolic material aid to Gaza and breaking the blockade.
