SHOTLIST PARIS, FRANCE (JUNE 9, 2025) (ANADOLU-ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS AT PLACE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE, CHANTRING SLOGANS, CARRYING SIGNS AND BANNERSPARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 9: Thousands of people demonstrated on Monday evening, June 9, on the Place de la République in Paris following Israel’s interception of an aid ship attempting to break Tel Aviv’s siege on Gaza. Madleen, the aid ship bound for Gaza docked at Israel’s Ashdod Port on Monday after Israeli forces intercepted it and arrested all activists onboard, Israel’s public broadcaster KAN said. The British-flagged boat aimed to break a crippling blockade imposed by Israel on Gaza, where nearly 55,000 people have been killed in a brutal onslaught since October 2023. Carrying an amount of aid, including food and baby formula, the ship was boarded by Israeli forces during the night before it could reach the Gaza shore and was towed to Ashdod Port in Israel. A total of 12 people went on the aid mission, including 11 activists and one journalist. Activists aboard the aid ship include Yasemin Acar from Germany; Baptiste Andre, Pascal Maurieras, Yanis Mhamdi, and Reva Viard from France; Thiago Avila from Brazil; Suayb Ordu from Türkiye; Sergio Toribio from Spain; Marco van Rennes from the Netherlands; and Omar Faiad, a journalist with Al Jazeera Mubasher, also from France; and Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg. French-Palestinian Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan is also among those detained by Israel. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition sent Madleen from Sicily, Italy, to break the blockade in Gaza and deliver aid. As Israel has continued to close all Gaza’s border crossings to humanitarian aid since early March, aid agencies have warned about the risk of famine among Gaza’s 2.4 million population. Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war crimes against civilians in the enclave.