The hefty price tag amounts to each taxpayer giving each citizen of Israel about $3,400 since 7 October 2023

<article data-history-node-id="429811" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-gaza-bound-flotilla-ships-intercepted-israeli-forces" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-gaza-bound-flotilla-ships-intercepted-israeli-forces" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">More Gaza-bound flotilla ships intercepted by Israeli forces</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;forces have intercepted additional aid boats bound for Gaza in international waters, the Global Sumud Flotilla said on Wednesday.</p> <p>The Global Sumud Flotilla said in a statement that three boats -&nbsp;the Gaza Sunbirds, the Alaa Al-Najjar, and the Anas Al-Sharif - were intercepted 220km&nbsp;off the coast of Gaza in the morning.</p> <p>An Israeli army helicopter also attacked another ship, the Conscience, carrying more than 90 people,&nbsp;including journalists and medics.</p> <p>In a separate post on X, Global Sumud Flotilla said&nbsp;the crew of the boat Milad was also "intercepted".</p> <p>The Israeli foreign ministry condemned the flotilla campaign as a "futile attempt" to "enter a combat zone", adding that the ships and passengers were transferred to an Israeli port and "should be expelled promptly".</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/more-gaza-bound-flotilla-ships-intercepted-israeli-forces">More Gaza-bound flotilla ships intercepted by Israeli forces</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A girl pushes a broken wheelchair loaded with jerrycans along a road at a camp for people displaced by war in northern Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on 7 October 2025 (Bashar Taleb/AFP)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="cae390bc-c8a9-4c44-8e39-57b3c1bfb4dd" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/GAZA_IDP_AFP_0.jpg" width="1024" height="576" alt="A girl pushes a broken wheelchair loaded with jerrycans along a road at a camp for people displaced by war in northern Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on 7 October 2025 (Bashar Taleb/AFP)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A girl pushes a broken wheelchair loaded with jerrycans along a road at a camp for people displaced by war in northern Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip on 7 October 2025 (Bashar Taleb/AFP)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>

Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel refused to condemn her ministerial colleague for inviting far-right leader to Israel