Italy is sending a ship to accompany the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla, who said its activists remain shaken but determined following an Israeli attack on Wednesday morning.

Organisers of expedition, which is attempting to carry aid to the Gaza Strip, shared footage this morning appears to show an explosion that detonated on one of the flotilla’s vessels.

Late on Tuesday activists heard explosions and saw drones that targeted some of their boats, currently situated off Greece. “Multiple drones, unidentified objects dropped, communications jammed and explosions heard from a number of boats,” the Global Sumud Flotilla said.

“I have authorised the immediate intervention of the Navy’s frigate Fasan, which was sailing north of Crete and is heading towards the area,” Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said in a statement.

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
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    Context: Italian unions threatened to shut down Italian docks if the flotilla doesn’t arrive and there have been massive protests in Italy against the genocide.

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    Seeing this news makes me happy. My country has only recently recognised the Palestinian state, and they don’t seem like to be backing up this symbolic gesture with concrete action any time soon. Italy is currently putting countries like mine to shame.

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      Probably nothing. Israel already attacked a UN outposts in Lebanon and nothing came of that. Previously they’ve also attacked the USS Liberty and nothing came of that either.

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        Well the russians declared it a holy war. And some isrealis do too.

        We only had 9 crusades! We cant just leave it at 9! 9 is such an ugly number! Make it an even 10. A flat X

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          I like square numbers! 9 is also a victim of a vore fetish stalker that only lives a few places down the line, have some compassion

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            Ugh, if they make it 10 I’m going to have to hope for 2 more to make things nice for the statistics.

            100% of them were bad for the common person Huh, maybe it doesn’t matter after all.

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      For me, I rarely upvotes news sources which I don’t know if they are reliable or not. The one linked in this post for example.

      But that news is so big, and makes me hopeful, so I felt compelled to upvote it.

      (I’m not sure if I saw the attack one (I did read about an attack that happened near or in Tunisia, and maybe another news about another attack, I’m not sure), so I can’t say if I upvoted or not and for what reason)

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        (I’m not sure if I saw the attack one (I did read about an attack that happened near or in Tunisia, and maybe another news about another attack, I’m not sure), so I can’t say if I upvoted or not and for what reason)

        They have been attacked on 3 different occasions during the global flotilla journey (previous flotilla were also attacked before).

        Your comment highlight how much the censorship has been effective.