Despite the Family Boat suffering an engine failure and pressures from the Italian government, the group of boats aiming to break the Israeli siege, the Global Sumud Flotilla, has decided that it will not stop its journey to the Gaza Strip.
In a video published in the night between Friday and Saturday, one of the Flotilla's spokespersons, Thiago Ávila, said that the Family Boat had suffered a "catastrophic technical failure" in the engine, preventing it from continuing its journey.
