{"id":251197,"date":"2025-09-24T13:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251197\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:40:11","slug":"explosions-and-drones-targeting-gaza-aid-flotilla-boats-activists-say-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251197\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosions and drones targeting Gaza aid flotilla boats, activists say | Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Organisers of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists have reported explosions and multiple drones that targeted some of their boats, currently situated near Greece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cMultiple drones, unidentified objects dropped, communications jammed and explosions heard from a number of boats,\u201d the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) said in a statement. \u201cWe are witnessing these psychological operations first-hand, right now, but we will not be intimidated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The German human rights activist Yasemin Acar said in a video she posted on Instagram that five vessels had been attacked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Explosions and drones targeting Gaza aid flotilla boats, activists say \u2013 video \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758721211_906_1920.jpg\" height=\"259\" width=\"460\" class=\"dcr-1qi2at0\"\/>Explosions and drones targeting Gaza aid flotilla boats, activists say \u2013 video <\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In an earlier video, Acar said the activists had \u201csighted 15 to 16 drones\u201d, adding that their radios had been jammed as loud music could be heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">One video posted by the flotilla\u2019s official Instagram page showed an explosion it said it recorded from the Spectre boat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">In another video posted by the same page, the Brazilian activist Thiago Avila said four boats had been \u201ctargeted with drones throwing devices\u201d just before another explosion was heard in the background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Earlier this month, the GSF said that it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/10\/gaza-aid-flotilla-carrying-greta-thunberg-reports-second-drone-attack-on-boat-at-tunisian-port\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attacked by drones over two days<\/a> while stationed in Tunisia. None of the passengers or crew were harmed during those events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">At the time Tunisia\u2019s interior ministry said at least one of the reports of drones had \u201cno basis in truth\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The flotilla carrying activists, including the Swedish climate campaigner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/greta-thunberg\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greta Thunberg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/aug\/31\/aid-flotilla-with-greta-thunberg-set-to-sail-for-gaza-to-break-siege\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">set sail from Barcelona in late August<\/a> to \u201cbreak the illegal siege of Gaza\u201d, organisers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It currently numbers 51 vessels, most of which are situated off the Greek island of Crete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Israel said Monday it would not allow the flotilla to reach Gaza. Israel blocked two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/09\/gaza-aid-boat-madleen-israel-greta-thunberg-freedom-flotilla-coalition\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">earlier attempts by activists to reach Gaza<\/a> by sea in June and July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">With Reuters and Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Organisers of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists have reported explosions and multiple drones that targeted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":251198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-251197","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\/115259561084907781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251197","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=251197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}