Gaza flotilla on a mission of folly

I NOTE the ship attacked by the Israeli defence forces (IDF) was funded by the Turkish IHH, which is widely accepted to be an extreme fundamentalist organisation with links to al-Quaida.

Why is it the people on this flotilla thought they would be allowed to land at Gaza when everyone before them has been stopped.

If those people were really so concerned about providing aid why didn’t they take up the Israeli offer to land at an Israeli port and be escorted to Gaza with all their supplies once it was certain no weapons that would later be used to kill Israeli civilians were included.