French actress Adèle Haenel joins the Global Sumud flotilla to Gaza from Tunis

Published on 05/09/2025 - 13:07 GMT+2

French character Adèle Haenel has announced that she will group sail for nan Gaza Strip from Tunis aboard nan Global Sumud flotilla. 

The ships of nan Global Sumud Flotilla (‘sumud’ intends ‘resilience’ successful Arabic) are scheduled to scope Gaza mid-September to present humanitarian aid, aft 2 attempts were blocked by Israel successful June and July. 

“At this melodramatic infinitesimal successful history, I decided to committee 1 of nan ships participating successful nan Global Sumud Flotilla humanitarian mission,” explained character and activist. “Our extremity is to bring nutrient and medicine to nan group of Gaza, who are suffering from a famine deliberately orchestrated by nan Israeli government,” she denounced. 

Haenel, who roseate to fame successful nan critically acclaimed films Portrait of a Lady connected Fire and Deerskin, arrived successful Tunisia past play and took portion successful 2 days of training to hole for nan operation. 

“We are agreed by nan desire to enactment peacefully to unfastened a humanitarian corridor and break nan forbidden blockade imposed by nan Israeli authorities connected Gaza,” added the actress. 

More than a 100 group are expected to embark from Tunisia connected Sunday. Initially planned for past Thursday, nan departure was postponed owed to upwind conditions and delays affecting nan flotilla that near Barcelona. 

Among nan activists from dozens of countries connected committee nan flotilla's ships are Swedish biology activistic Greta Thunberg, arsenic good arsenic European elected officials for illustration La France Insoumise MEP Emma Fourreau and erstwhile Barcelona politician Ada Colau.  

Haenel, 36, made her people connected nan French movie world by storming retired of nan 45th César Awards ceremonial successful 2020, outraged by nan awarding of an honour to Roman Polanski, who has been accused of rape and intersexual battle by respective women. 

In 2023, nan character announced she was stepping distant from nan world of movie for “political reasons”, sending a missive to French mag Télérama successful which she explained her reasons, denouncing nan “general complacency” toward “sexual aggressors” for illustration Gérard Depardieu and Roman Polanski. 

“I decided to politicise my status from cinema to denounce nan wide complacency of nan occupation towards intersexual aggressors and much mostly nan measurement successful which this sphere collaborates pinch nan mortal, ecocidal, racist bid of nan world specified arsenic it is,” she wrote. 

The character had antecedently shared that she had been abused by nan head Christophe Ruggia betwixt nan ages of 12 and 15, added that nan French movie manufacture had reacted pinch indifference to #MeToo accusations. 

Last month, nan Integrated Food Security Phase Classification announced that group successful nan Gaza Strip are officially facing “a man-made” famine in nan territory – contempt what nan Israeli authorities has said.  

Since Hamas’ onslaught connected Israeli citizens connected October 7, 2023, aggregate UN quality authorities experts have stated that Israel’s subject actions successful Gaza magnitude to genocide, pinch nan International Court of Justice uncovering claims of genocide plausible. 

Israel has rejected nan genocide accusations and support that its operations are lawful acts of self-defence.