Gaza aid flotilla reports explosions, drones and radios ‘jammed’ with ABBA music

The organizers of a flotilla carrying Gaza aid have reported explosions near their boats and see Several drones around the fleet, which is made up of more than 500 people, including an eminent environmental militant Greta Thunberg.

Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) who sailed near Greece from the start on Wednesday, according to his online tracker, also saw his communications “blocked”, said its organizers in a press release.

“We are witnessing these first-hand psychological operations right now, but we will not be intimidated,” they added. “Sumud” in Arabic means “Constance” or “”firm perseverance. “”

In an online video shared by GSF during the night, a shiny light can be seen unraveling the darkness, before a noisy explosion returns. The organizers said that the video had been filmed from one of its boats, Specter, and that it had captured one of the explosions heard by crew members.

In a separate video published by Yasemin Acar on the Alma ship, the music of the Pop Abba group, whose members, like Thunberg are hailed by Sweden, can be heard. “They block our radio,” said Acar in the post, adding: “We don’t know where it comes from, sound, but other ships know the same thing.”

Thunberg told Reuters on Tuesday in a video interview that drones were flying above them every night “but for the Palestinians, especially in Gaza, these drones are constantly leaving bombs.”

“This mission concerns Gaza is not for us. And no risk that we could take could even get closer to the risks that the Palestinians are confronted every day,” she said.

Italian Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto, sentenced the incident on Wednesday, saying that he had ordered a navy ship to offer aid, Reuters reported.

GSF did not immediately respond to a request for additional NBC News comments. The Israeli army and spokesperson for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also immediately responded to NBC News comments.

But the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry condemned Flotilla on Monday. Without providing any evidence, Oren Marmorstein, ministry spokesman, said in a statement on X that the flotilla had been “organized by Hamas” and “intended to serve Hamas”.

He added that Israel would not allow the flotilla to “penetrate an active combat zone and not allow the violation of a lawful naval blockade”.

Marmorstein also called the flotilla to dock the Ashkelon marina of Israel and to unload the aid to be transferred to Gaza.

But GSF argued that Israel raped international law in its fatal offensive in Gaza, making the blockade of the illegal country.

The flotilla, which transports more than 500 people from more than 40 countries, has Barcelona navigation at the end of last month in order to “break the illegal seat of Gaza”.

Earlier this month, GSF said two of his boats had been attacked by drones when he was parked in Tunisia.

The Tunisian Interior Ministry said at the time that the reports of a drone striking a boat to its Sidi Bou declared that Port had “no truth” and that a fire broke out on the ship itself, according to Reuters.

The latest accusations come as Israeli forces are continuing their devastating assault on the city of Gaza which has seen scores killed in recent days and has forced the movement of hundreds of thousands of people. The deaths caused by famine also continued to increase in the enclave this month, according to Palestinian health officials.

Israel launched its offensive in Gaza following the attacks led by Hamas in 2023, when 1,200 people were killed and approximately 250 were taken hostage, according to Israeli officials, marking a major escalation in a decade conflict. Since then, Palestinian health officials have said that more than 65,000 people have been killed in Gaza, including thousands of children, while a large part of the enclave has been reduced to rubble.

This week, Tom Barrack, the American special envoy to Syria and the Ambassador to Turkey accused Israel of “attacking everyone”, in an interview with the National, the daily newspaper in English belonging to the state based in the United Arab Emirates.

He appointed Syria and Lebanon among attacked people, as well as Tunisia, in an apparent reference to the presumed attack on the Flatilla of Aid.

“Personally, I hate what happened in Gaza on all sides,” said Barrack in the newspaper “for the Palestinians, for the Israelis, for the Jordanians, for the Lebanese, for the Syrians, for the Turks. You know … it’s a mess.”

“Israel is a precious ally,” said Barrack. “We subsidize them” from $ 4 billion to $ 5 billion per year. “It has a special place in the hearts of America, and we live with the confusion of what is happening in this transition.”

“So it’s complicated,” he added.