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2025-05-04 International-UN-NGOs
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Malta, Greece, Turkey said threatening to seize Gaza activists’ drone-hit ship if it docks
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[IsraelTimes] Activists with pro-Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition say Palau revoked its flag from Conscience shortly before alleged Israeli attack on reportedly Hamas-affiliated vessel
At least three countries are said to have denied entry and threatened to confiscate a reportedly Hamas
 ..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
-affiliated Gazoo
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...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
-bound humanitarian aid ship whose operators accused Israel on Friday of attacking it with drones in international waters near Malta.
Tighe Barry, an activist with anti-war group Codepink, told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the Pacific island nation of Palau, which has warm ties with Israel, revoked its flag from the Conscience prior to the alleged attack.
As a result, authorities in Malta, Greece and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
have warned that they would seize the ship if it comes to port, he said, adding that it was unclear where the vessel could stop for repairs. There was no formal comment from those countries.
"To get a new flag will take months, so they’re just stuck out there," said Barry, who was among a group of activists who took speedboats to the Conscience after the attack.
The boats were turned away by Maltese authorities, he said, but one person made it aboard and spoke to the captain.
The Conscience was operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, an international non-governmental organization, which is campaigning to end Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Another Coalition ship to Gaza in 2010 was stopped and boarded by Israeli troops, leading to the death of nine of the activists, who resisted the troops and injured 10 of them. Other ships have similarly been stopped and boarded, without loss of life.
The Saudi Al Arabiya news channel reported, citing a Western security source, that Hamas was behind the Conscience vessel and that those onboard planned to engage with troops from the Israel Defense Forces as they approached the Gaza shore.
According to the ship-monitoring website Marine Traffic, the Conscience had left the Tunisian port of Bizerte on Tuesday and arrived Thursday morning in the area where it reported being attacked.
The Freedom Flotilla said Friday that the Conscience had been struck twice overnight by armed drones 17 nautical miles (31.5 kilometers) east of Malta, "causing a fire and a substantial breach in the hull." The statement added that "Israeli ambassadors must be summoned and answer to violations of international law.
The Israeli foreign ministry did not respond to a request for comment on the allegation by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
The group released footage showing two large holes in the ship’s deck, with thick smoke surrounding the vessel. The person recording the footage said the ship had been hit twice. Further footage recorded in daylight showed debris surrounding the holes.
The ship’s generator was badly damaged and would need to be repaired before it could continue, said Charlie Andreasson, who has been involved with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition for more than a decade.
The coalition said it organized a non-violent mostly peaceful action under a media blackout to avoid any potential sabotage. Asked whether the group believes Israel was behind the attack, a spokesperson told AFP they "suspected" that was the case.
"While we cannot confirm 100%, we suspect it’s Israel," Hay Sha Wiya said, calling the country "the primary entity interested in keeping us and any aid out of Gaza."
Another spokeswoman, Caoimhe Butterly, said the attack took place as the ship was preparing for activists to board from another vessel. A transfer at sea had been planned rather than the ship going to harbor, for bureaucratic reasons, she said. Swedish activist Greta "Pippi" Thunberg
...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change, though I guess she's older now...
told Rooters she was in Malta and had been supposed to board the ship.
The Maltese government said the vessel and its crew were secured in the early hours of the morning after a nearby tug assisted with firefighting operations following an SOS call from the Conscience. The government said there were 16 people on board the ship, while Thunberg and the Freedom Flotilla gave the number to be 30.
In a statement Friday evening, Malta also said "no aircraft or vessel currently mentioned in local and foreign media in relation to the case of the vessel Conscience" had entered the country’s airspace or territorial waters, which stretch to 12 nautical miles (19.3 kilometers) from the island.
Turkey’s foreign ministry said Ottoman Turkish nationals were on board at the time of the incident, and it was working with Maltese authorities to transfer them to a safe location.
"We condemn in the strongest terms this attack on a civilian ship," it said, noting that there were "allegations that the ship was targeted by Israeli drones."
"All necessary efforts will be made to reveal the details of the attack as soon as possible and to bring the perpetrators to justice," it said.
The alleged Israeli attack on the Conscience came some two months after Israel halted the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip.
The flow of aid stopped on March 2, after the expiration of the Gaza ceasefire and the hostage deal’s 42-day first phase, amid Israel’s refusal to negotiate the second and Hamas’s refusal to extend the first. Israel resumed hostilities in Gaza on March 18.
Aid agencies say there is a growing humanitarian crisis in the Paleostinian enclave.
The stop on aid entering Gaza was part of an Israeli effort to pressure Hamas back into a hostage deal. At the same time, the IDF resumed its offensive in Gaza, seizing large sections of the Strip’s territory and killing an estimated 400 members of terror groups, including dozens of brass hats in Hamas’s politburo and military wing.
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