Activist from terrorist-linked group joins latest Gaza flotilla with Greta Thunberg
Activists including Greta Thunberg, stand on a boat that is part of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a humanitarian expedition to Gaza, as seen from the port in Barcelona, Spain August 31, 2025 (photo credit: BRUNA CASAS/REUTERS)
Abubakra is one of the founders of Masar Badil, as well as the coordinator for the Madrid chapter of the Samidoun Prisoner Solidarity Network.
An activist with an organization designated by Israel as a terrorist front group is participating in the newest flotilla launched by activists on Sunday to break the blockade around Gaza.
Jaldia Abubakra embarked from Barcelona on a ship, according to a Saturday Masar Badil Palestinian Revolutionary Path statement.
Abubakra is one of the founders of Masar Badil, as well as the coordinator for the Madrid chapter of the Samidoun Prisoner Solidarity Network.
Samidoun, which was founded in 2011 out of hunger strikes led by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine security prisoners, was designated as a branch of the Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in 2021. Germany banned Samidoun in 2023, and the US and Canada followed suit in 2024.
One of Samidoun’s leaders, Khaled Barakat, who has been described in the past by the PFLP and Palestinian media as a leader of the PFLP, was also blacklisted by the US in 2024 for his terrorist connections. Barakat would later found Masar Badil with Abubakra in 2021.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg departs on the Global Sumud Flotilla, a humanitarian expedition to Gaza, from the port of Barcelona, Spain August 31, 2025 (credit: REUTERS/NACHO DOCE)
Flotilla must be ‘allowed to reach Gaza’
“This is my journey to Palestine. I am returning with the Freedom Flotilla, together with all the free people who have decided to break the siege, support the steadfastness of our people, and expose the crimes of the occupation before the world,” Abubakra said in a statement.
“We must assume our responsibility in the diaspora toward our people in Gaza, the West Bank, and all of occupied Palestine, which I see as one land from the river to the sea. After all, we are one people, with one cause and one destiny, and our rights are indivisible.”
Abubakra called for global pressure to compel the Israeli government to allow the flotilla to reach Gaza.
