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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGaza 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-thunbergEarlier, 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.
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
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Israel has no legal standing to attack a ship in international waters. I believe that is considered an act of war.
sinkingfeeling
Sunday
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Arazi
(7,907 posts)1. Completely unsurprising. This was always going to be the obvious conclusion
Still sad.
There was zero chance they were going to break the blockade.
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.
Be Leave On
(223 posts)4. USS Liberty
Much like they attacked the USS Liberty in open waters in 1967.
sinkingfeeling
(55,430 posts)5. Yep.
Jack Valentino
(2,244 posts)9. Or just another "war CRIME" committed by the "state" of Israel.
brush
(60,200 posts)3. More warmongering by war criminal Netanyahu.
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
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.
brush
(60,200 posts)8. Yep, just absolute war crimes daily.