{"id":410315,"date":"2025-09-09T11:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410315\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:36:18","slug":"greta-thunbergs-gaza-flotilla-was-hit-by-a-drone-crew-says-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410315\/","title":{"rendered":"Greta Thunberg\u2019s Gaza flotilla was hit by a drone, crew says \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe family boat has been officially attacked. The drone came right above it, released the bomb, and it exploded and the boat was on fire. Everyone on that boat is okay \u2026 they have bombed a boat, once again, with civilians on it. In Tunisian territory,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/QudsNen\/status\/1965191618581200915\" target=\"_blank\">said Yasemin Acar<\/a>, one of the six activists who was on board.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main flotilla boat, Family, has been attacked. By a drone. Of course, it will have to be verified \u2026 if it\u2019s confirmed that there has been an attack on this flotilla, there has been an attack on Tunisia,\u201d Francesca Albanese, United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories and a prominent critic of Israel, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GlobalSumudFlot\/status\/1965244354085487018\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GlobalSumudFlot\/status\/1965244354085487018\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in a video.<\/p>\n<p>Tunisian authorities, however, denied the reports of a drone attack.<\/p>\n<p>Houcem Eddine Jebabli, a spokesperson for\u00a0Tunisia\u2019s national guard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/middle-east\/20250909-flotilla-for-gaza-drone-tunisian-waters\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/middle-east\/20250909-flotilla-for-gaza-drone-tunisian-waters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> an investigation was \u201congoing\u201d but \u201cno drones have been detected,\u201d calling the reports \u201ccompletely unfounded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to preliminary findings, a fire broke out in the life jackets on board a ship anchored 50 miles from the port of Sidi Bou Said,\u201d he added, suggesting that fire might have been caused by a cigarette.<\/p>\n<p>The GSF flotilla set sail from Barcelona last week and arrived in Tunisia over the weekend. It comprises about 20 vessels carrying pro-Palestinian activists from 44 nations heading toward Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid amid Israel\u2019s ongoing war on Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli authorities have dismissed attempts to ferry aid to Gaza as publicity stunts. In June, the country\u2019s forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/israel-greta-thunberg-gaza-aid-shop-palestine\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/israel-greta-thunberg-gaza-aid-shop-palestine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">intercepted<\/a> another aid ship that Thunberg was on.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcinfo.org\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/ipcinfo\/docs\/IPC_Famine_Review_Committee_Report_Gaza_Aug2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report<\/a> published in late August, famine conditions in Gaza are \u201centirely man-made\u201d but could be \u201chalted and reversed\u201d if immediate action is taken. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe family boat has been officially attacked. The drone came right above it, released the bomb, and it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4582,837,1815,7163,839,12,1814,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-410315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-human-rights","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-israel-hamas-war","11":"tag-israeli-palestinian-conflict","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-palestine","15":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115174138831378003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}