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highplainsdem

(56,587 posts)
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 09:23 PM Sunday

Gaza aid ship Madleen has been attacked and boarded by Israeli military.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/09/live-israel-gaza-aid-ship-madleen-freedom-flotilla-coalition-greta-thunberg

Earlier, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), the activist group operating the vessel, posted on Telegram, that the Madleen was “under assault in international waters.”

Quadcopters are surrounding the ship, spraying it with a white irritant substance. Communications are jammed, and disturbing sounds are being played over the radio.”

Before communication was apparently lost with the Madleen, a number of activists on board the vessel posted video and images of a white substance on the deck of the boat.

Rima Hassan, a French member of the Europena parliament, posted this image to her X account in the last hour.






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Gaza aid ship Madleen has been attacked and boarded by Israeli military. (Original Post) highplainsdem Sunday OP
Completely unsurprising. This was always going to be the obvious conclusion Arazi Sunday #1
Yep DetroitLegalBeagle Sunday #6
Israel has no legal standing to attack a ship in international waters. I believe that is considered an act of war. sinkingfeeling Sunday #2
USS Liberty Be Leave On Sunday #4
Yep. sinkingfeeling Sunday #5
Or just another "war CRIME" committed by the "state" of Israel. Jack Valentino Sunday #9
More warmongering by war criminal Netanyahu. brush Sunday #3
Netanyahu's legacy will not be forgotten. The sooner the good people in Israel can remove him from highplainsdem Sunday #7
Yep, just absolute war crimes daily. brush Sunday #8

sinkingfeeling

(55,430 posts)
2. Israel has no legal standing to attack a ship in international waters. I believe that is considered an act of war.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 09:30 PM
Sunday

brush

(60,200 posts)
3. More warmongering by war criminal Netanyahu.
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 09:45 PM
Sunday

Guess they're going to deprive the Palestinians of food and medical aid.

Ehnic cleansing by starvation.

highplainsdem

(56,587 posts)
7. Netanyahu's legacy will not be forgotten. The sooner the good people in Israel can remove him from
Sun Jun 8, 2025, 10:04 PM
Sunday

power and prosecute him and his thuggish enables, the better.

What he's done will not be forgotten even if he and his thugs succeed in burying Gaza in the obscenity of a resort that Trump likes to talk about.

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