But Maltese govt will not allow stricken vessel to return to its waters for help as crew desperately tries to keep it afloat. Read on for the latest
The Maltese government allowed an Israeli military plane to circle in its airspace for five hours while it released and controlled the drones that bombed an international humanitarian ship and its crew last night, according to flight tracking data that also showed a US military aircraft circling in the same area:
Yet the Maltese government will not allow the ship to limp to port in capital Valletta, apparently seeking to force the crew of thirty humanitarian workers to abandon the holed and burned vessel and allow it to sink, to bring an end to the Gaza-bound humanitarian mission.
Watch below for the latest available information on the situation of the ship and its brave crew, who fear a new Israeli attack at any moment:
🚨URGENT ACTION: FREEDOM FLOTILLA UNDER ATTACK🚨
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Footage shows activists, lawyers, and journalists from several countries, along with members of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, moving by boats toward the Conscience ship, checking on the activists who were on board and documenting the aftermath of the Israeli attack launched last night.
@nicolejenes “I cannot find my words to describe the resilience and humanity I witnessed! Stayed tuned for all our news and please share everything!”
30 humanitarian activists at risk of drowning, stranded at sea after Israel bombed them and there has been no response to their SOS for over 7 hours.
Their mission is to get AID TO GAZA!!
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“The damage caused to the ship by the attack is of this scale. A hole formed in the base of the Conscience ship, which was struck on the deck, and water continues to enter through this hole. For the sake of our more than fifty thousand brothers and sisters martyred in Gaza, and for the hundreds of thousands of our siblings living in Gaza, which has been turned into an open-air prison, we will resist. We will not be discouraged by the attacks and we will continue the struggle!”” – Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
The UK government continues to do nothing. PM Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy, colluding as always in Israel’s crimes, genocide and deliberate starvation of civilians, have not even mentioned it and UK media continue to ignore it. The UK and US are bombing Yemen for blocking shipping to prevent genocide, but do nothing against the terrorist state of Israel that is bombing ships trying to alleviate the deliberate starvation of almost two million people. They belong in the dock at the International Criminal Court.
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The maltese government today disgrace not only to their forebears, (who earned the whole island a george medal in fighting this exact same fascism). but those allied personnel who sacrificed their lives in the relief of the siege of Malta in what is known as Operation Pedestal
Shame on them.
I urge people planning on travelling there for a holiday to choose somewhere else instead.
I would also urge stevedores all over the world to refuse to shift any and all goods bound for israel.
…Permanently.
As for keef and cor lammy, if there are british nationals on that vessel what are you gonna do about the attempt on their lives?
Ir do you now consider British citizens – home and abroad – fair game for
the zionist jewish govermentmurderous israeli agents?Given that Herr Starmer and the house slave – along with the majority of the PLP – are enthusiastic, committed, and effective, acting murderous Israeli agents it would seem reasonable to interpret that as a trick question, Toffee.
The following article was posted on the BBC News website yesterday:
Activists say ship aiming to sail to Gaza was attacked by drones
Activists who were planning to sail a ship to Gaza say it was struck by drones in international waters off the coast of Malta – appearing to accuse Israel of being behind the attack.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition said its ship The Conscience was targeted at 00:23 local time on Friday and issued an SOS signal right after the attack.
The BBC was sent a recording of the distress call from the flotilla ship, recorded by a crew member on a nearby oil tanker. The captain of the flotilla ship can clearly be heard reporting drone strikes and a fire onboard.
The Maltese government said everyone aboard the ship was “confirmed safe” and that a fire onboard the ship was “brought under control overnight”.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition said it had planned to sail to Gaza with people including climate activist Greta Thunberg on board and “challenge Israel’s illegal siege and blockade”.
The NGO called for Israeli ambassadors to be summoned to answer for “violation of international law, including the ongoing blockade and the bombing of our civilian vessel”.
The Israeli military said it was looking into reports of the attack.
Organisers told the BBC that the group had been “operating in total secrecy with a complete media blackout” to prevent “sabotage” as they prepared to sail towards Gaza…
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx27z0r8n5do
The Israeli scumbags just lurve doing their Nazi thing! And you can be absolutely certain that Starmer and David – Hamas raped babies – Lammy and Trump and and his nazi-saluting buddies et al and most European leaders are highly amused by everything the Israeli fascists are doing. What most people don’t understand is that these scum are sick, twisted, mega-sadistic demented and deranged inhuman beings, and they are literally the successors to the Nazis. The Nazi mindset didn’t begin with Hitler, and it didn’t end with Hitler, the only difference is that now they are invisable to the vast majority of people. And needless to say, most of the MSM in the West is owned and controlled by Nazi scum, who decieve and dupe and manipulate hundreds of millions of people on a daily basis. Just ONE example: Not one single MSM outlet has reported the fact that only one Israeli baby was killed on October 7th – ie 10-month old Mila Cohen – and has continued in effect to let the vast majotity of the population carry on believing that Hamas beheaded forty babies. And this information has been in the public domaine since December, 2023, and you can be 1,000% certain that every single MSM organisation has known about it since then – ie since December, 2023 (but then there is no doubt whatsoever that every one of them knew it was a big nazi-type lie and atrocity propaganda in the first place).
Is it just coincidence that not a single UK news outlet – and most of the rest of the MSM in the West – covered the fact that only one baby was killed on October 7th?! Of course it’s not, and it’s a conspiracy of silence/omission by all of them, and THAT of course is evidence that the media is owned and run and controlled by Nazis for the Nazi establishment.
And they ALL colluded in the A/S black op against Jeremy and the left of course, which is just further proof of who and what they all are.
Most of the MSM have covered the story (including the Daily Mail), but I just did a search on each of their websites re >Gaza Freedom Flotilla drone< and got 0 results on the Sun, Express and – would you believe – the Mirror.
Email for Maltese government
customercare.dqse@gov.mt
Never forget the USS Liberty.
For anyone unfamilar with the episode, here’s the wikipedia entry, but better still, read the original book entitled The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
Maybe someone can explain what having a “Labour” government means…
A group of poor people take military action in support of people being starved, bombed and blasted to death, and so we bomb them. But a group of people seek to offer a little insubstantial support to those being starved, and their boat is attacked by a nation that enjoys attacking all of its neighbours (with the Labour Government’s undemocratic help, which aids someone alleged by the ICC and ICJ to be a war criminal) and our L:ABOUR government makes no comment, and our papers for the most point hardly mention the peaceful folks being attacked.
Sorry that I don’t understand this. I believe I make an attempt to be logical, but there is a 100% failure in logic as far as I can see. (1948 Berlin airlift? Let the b****** starve, eh?)