Francesca and Greta will be live 24th Sept, 13pm GMT+3...
Posted by Ed on September 24, 2025, 12:34 pm
quote: United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca P. Albanese, and Swedish environmental activist, Greta Thunberg, will go live with three legal observers from the Shireen boat - Leigh Brosnan, Gemma McLoughlin Burke, and Alexander Hogg - to expose exactly how these attacks violated international law, and explain the legal path to accountability.
Last night’s attacks on several ships in the fleet were more examples of crimes against innocent civilians under international law. They tried to stop us, but they failed. ✊
Surprisingly decent piece from the Metro here, apart from the whitewashing statement: "Israel has previously intercepted Gaza-bound ships, seizing the vessels and deporting those on board." They forgot to mention the nine murdered people on the Mavi Marmara.
quote: Gaza-bound flotilla with Greta Thunberg on board struck by drones
Greta Thunberg’s flotilla trying to get life-saving supplies to Gaza has been struck by drones and flash grenades.
Footage shared on Instagram showed multiple explosions as the vessels, carrying humanitarian aid for besieged Palestinians, are currently situated near Greece.
‘Multiple drones, unidentified objects dropped, communications jammed and explosions heard from a number of boats,’ the Global Sumud Flotilla said in a statement.
‘We are witnessing these psychological operations firsthand, right now, but we will not be intimidated.’
Reports from those on board suggest that flash-bang grenades have been deployed along with chemical sprays.
No one has been injured in the attack and the flotilla continues to monitor the situation.
German human rights activist and flotilla member Yasemin Acar said in a video she posted on Instagram that five vessels had been attacked.
She stressed that the flotilla is only transporting humanitarian aid, adding:’We have no weapons. We pose no threat to anyone.
‘It is Israel who is killing thousands of people (and) starving the population.’
In an earlier video, Acar said that ’15 to 16 drones’ had been seen, adding that their radios had also been jammed as loud music could be heard.
In another video, Brazilian activist Thiago Avila said four boats had been ‘targeted with drones throwing devices’ just before another explosion was heard in the background.
The Global Sumud Flotilla set sail from Barcelona earlier this month with the aim of breaking Israel’s blockade of Gaza and delivering aid to the territory.
The flotilla had already been targeted by drones twice in Tunisia, where its boat had been anchored before resuming its voyage towards Gaza.
The mission is the largest effort of its kind aiming to reach Gaza, where 2.4 million Palestinians live under an Israeli blockade.
Israel has previously intercepted Gaza-bound ships, seizing the vessels and deporting those on board.
I expect the genocidal entity to be more aggressive with this iteration of the flotilla just because of the number of boats involved. If they want to intercept/arrest/whatever term they put to their illegal acts of piracy 40 to 50 boats they will have to have some massive operation which will provide bad optics and could possibly result in some accidents.
I think they may be trying to "thin them out" but I'm not sure harrasment is going to work so this might see them resorting to more direct actions.
Am I right in thinking that they don't have any more ports of call before reaching Gaza? If they still have to dock somewhere I could see some sabotage trying to knock out some of the boats but if they don't have to stop anywhere else they have two options; mass hijack or get them to turn round. This may be why they've chosen to make this one so much bigger than the previous ones; making the usual apartheid state defence more difficult if not impossible but that's a tricky gambit.The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
Re: Gaza-bound flotilla with Greta Thunberg on board struck by drones
As far as I know there are no more ports before they reach their destination...or at least try to reach it. Got a really bad feeling about this, the nazis are riding high on their own wave of extreme terrorism which is getting more and more violent every day. Not sure they give a shit about what the world's population thinks of them if they do something really bad here, so long as the fuckers in power continue to let them get away with anything and everything. The genocide continues and their blatant war crimes in other countries continues apace...they just murdered another three kids in Lebanon the other day...but so what? Harold Pinter got it so right!
"I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile."
Re: Gaza-bound flotilla with Greta Thunberg on board struck by drones
A journalist on the flotilla...I know she makes appeals to international law here but she can be in no doubt that means less than nothing when it comes to the nazis. Worrying and very dangerous times ahead.
on September 24, 2025, 12:34 pm