The Defense Ministry announced that the flotilla was making its way to Israeli shores and that all passengers were expected to return to their home countries.

A ship filled with aid bound for Gaza set sail Sunday, hoping to break Israel's blockade on the Palestinian enclave a month after another of its ships was damaged in an alleged Israeli drone strike in Maltese waters.

A humanitarian ship carrying 12 international activists, including Swedish climate advocate Greta Thunberg, is sailing off Egypt’s northern coast in a renewed effort to break Israel’s longstanding