{"id":233409,"date":"2025-05-09T20:47:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/israel-bombs-humanitarian-aid-flotilla-on-way-to-gaza\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T20:47:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T20:47:54","slug":"israel-bombs-humanitarian-aid-flotilla-on-way-to-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=233409","title":{"rendered":"Israel Bombs Humanitarian Aid Flotilla on Way to Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":" \r\n
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A similar aid convoy was attacked by Tel Aviv in 2010, killing 10 people and injuring dozens more<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A ship carrying supplies bound for the Gaza Strip was attacked by Israeli drones in international waters on Friday, according to the activist group that organized the flotilla. The vessel reportedly took at least one direct hit to its hull and sustained damage from fire, forcing its crew to issue an urgent call for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizers with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) said one of their vessels was attacked by an unidentified drone in the early hours of Friday morning, noting the ship was not far off the coast of Malta when it was hit.<\/p>

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\u201cAt 00:23 Maltese time, the Conscience, a Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship, came under direct attack in international waters,\u201d the group said in a\u00a0press release<\/a>. \u201cArmed drones attacked the front of an unarmed civilian vessel twice, causing a fire and a substantial breach in the hull. [. . .] The drone strike appears to have deliberately targeted the ship\u2019s generator, leaving the crew without power and placing the vessel at great risk of sinking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An FFC spokesperson, Caoimhe Butterly, later told Reuters that the ship was struck en route to Malta, where it was scheduled to pick up other activists, among them climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and retired US Army Colonel Mary Ann Wright. The group said it had arranged the aid shipment \u201cunder a media black out to avoid any potential sabotage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Maltese tugboat helps put out a fire on board the Freedom Flotilla Coalition vessel the Conscience Credit: Government of Malta<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The FFC also\u00a0shared footage<\/a>\u00a0which allegedly shows the aftermath of the strike, with smoke and flames seen on the ship. At one point in the brief video, an apparent explosion can be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a\u00a0second press release<\/a>, the group later shared a photo of the damage sustained in the strike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maltese authorities said they received an SOS call from a vessel in international waters soon after midnight local time, adding that a nearby tugboat assisted the ship, according to\u00a0Reuters<\/a>. Officials added that the crew of the Conscience declined to board the tugboat, and also\u00a0confirmed to CNN<\/a>\u00a0that the fire on the ship had been extinguished. No casualties have been reported in the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FFC press release added that \u201cIsraeli ambassadors must be summoned and answer to violations of international law, including the ongoing blockade [on Gaza] and the bombing of our civilian vessel in international waters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a social media\u00a0post<\/a>\u00a0early on Friday, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, said she \u201creceived a distressed call from the people of the Freedom Flotilla that is carrying essential food and medicine to the starving Gaza population.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI call on concerned state authorities, including maritime authorities, to support the ship and its crew as needed. I trust the competent authorities will also ascertain the facts and intervene appropriately,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Israeli military has yet to comment on the incident, but said it was looking into reports about the attack,\u00a0according to the BBC<\/a>. Israel\u2019s Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FFC mission aimed to bring supplies to Gaza some two months into a heightened blockade by Tel Aviv, whose forces have leveled much of the territory in air and ground operations in response to Hamas\u2019 October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. On Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0aid operations in Gaza were on the verge of \u201ctotal collapse\u201d thanks to the blockade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2010, a similar humanitarian aid flotilla organized by the Free Gaza Movement and the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief, a Turkish org, was\u00a0attacked by Israeli forces<\/a>\u00a0in international waters. Nine people were killed in the assault, with another later dying of their injuries, while dozens more were wounded. A\u00a0UN report<\/a>\u00a0later found that all 10 activists had sustained gunshot wounds, and added that \u201cthe circumstances of the killing of at least six of the passengers were in a manner consistent with an extra-legal, arbitrary and summary execution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Porter is assistant news editor and book editor at the Libertarian Institute, and a regular contributor at Antiwar.com. Find more of his work at Consortium News and ZeroHedge.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n \n <\/div>\r\n
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