{"id":212658,"date":"2025-09-09T11:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/212658\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:11:10","slug":"bbc-verify-live-investigating-reported-strike-on-gaza-bound-flotilla-and-new-ukrainian-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/212658\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Investigating reported strike on Gaza-bound flotilla and new Ukrainian missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was a Gaza-bound flotilla struck by a drone?published at 10:27 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>10:27 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><strong>Joshua Cheetham<\/strong><br \/>BBC Verify journalist<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Two boats in the water with multiple Palestinian flags on their masts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/9642d339-287d-4f8e-9dab-ea5da3287dd8.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EPAImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two boats from the flotilla were pictured off Tunisia on Monday &#8211; Family is on the left of the picture<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This morning we\u2019re investigating reports that a Gaza-bound vessel has been hit in an apparent drone attack off the coast of Tunisia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Portuguese-flagged boat, called Family, is part of the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) which says it wants to deliver aid to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among the activists onboard is the Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg. GSF said the ship was struck by a drone while anchored outside the port of Sidi Bou Said in Tunisia. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All six passengers and crew are safe, it added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tunisia&#8217;s National Guard spokesman told local radio that reports of a drone attack on the flotilla &#8220;have no basis in truth&#8221;, Reuters reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added that an initial inspection indicated the explosion originated inside the vessel. But we\u2019ve seen several videos which appear to show a projectile landing on the deck of the Family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019re analysing them further to see whether the footage is authentic and will also speak to experts to understand what this projectile might be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Was a Gaza-bound flotilla struck by a drone?published at 10:27 British Summer Time 10:27 BST Joshua CheethamBBC Verify&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":212659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-212658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115174040334670798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}