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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.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 180 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Absolutely BASED. Thank you Italy!!!!!!!

[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 23 points 2 months ago

molto bene!

protests work.

unions work

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 99 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Israel is a terrorist state.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] BCBoy911@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago

Don't forget the apartheid! America's greatest ally indeed :-)

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Genocide-colonial entity

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

America being led by the balls along with them

[–] MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 54 points 2 months ago
[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 41 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] SirMaple__@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Go ahead IOF. Attack a NATO vessel. Watch what will happen.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 50 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"It was a mistake! We didn't know that well identified flotilla of civilian aid wasn't enemy warships!"

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

"It was a Hamas ship!"

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Watch what will happen.

Nothing, as it was shown time and time again with Russia

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Comon pope! Do the funny!!

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What, declare a new crusade? NCD is leaking

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Maybe, to make sure we're clear it's bad, we should make it an even L. Oh wait...

[–] oneser@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago

I can already see the (state) sponsored Tik Toks.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why are people upvoting this news and not the one about the flotilla being attacked?

[–] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

(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.