It started from Barcelona on 14 September 2016 and visited Ajaccio, Corsica and Messina, Sicily along the way.
[4][5][6][7] The Freedom Flotilla Coalition launched the Women's Boat to Gaza to raise awareness of the role of women in advancing the Palestinian struggle in the Palestinian Territories and diaspora.
[8][9][10][7] The Zaytouna-Oliva was the sole ship in the Women's Boat to Gaza expedition.
The Oliva was named after a civil protection boat that the Italian journalist Vittorio Arrigoni sailed in prior to his murder by a Palestinian militant group in Gaza in 2011.
A second ship called the Amal-Hope was originally due to participate but pulled out subsequently.