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Activists on board a Gaza-bound aid flotilla say the Israeli navy has begun intercepting their vessels.

The Global Sumud Flotilla – with Greta Thunberg, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mandla Mandela, and several European lawmakers aboard – consists of nearly 50 boats and 500 activists and is carrying a symbolic amount of humanitarian aid.

It has remained undeterred in its mission to break the Israeli blockade of the coastal strip and reach Palestinians.

Several activists posted videos on social media in which they said Israeli naval vessels were approaching the flotilla and ordering them to turn their engines off.

The vessels were sailing in international waters north of Egypt on Wednesday and had entered what activists and others called a “danger zone” or “high risk zone”.

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