In order to ‘open a humanitarian corridor and end the Genocide ongoing the Palestinian people’, about 20 vessels departed at the beginning of Barcelona’s month to Palestine
A that left with activists and humanitarian aid to In the early hours of Tuesday, he said that one of his vessels was attacked by a drone near Tunisia, but the country’s government denied the presence of the devices in the region. More than a thousand people received Flotilha on Sunday in the country of North Africa, a group of almost 20 vessels that settled at the beginning of Barcelona month to the devastated Palestinian territory.
Flotilha has the presence of the environmentalist among other personalities, such as Brazilian Thiago Ávila. The goal is to “open a humanitarian corridor and end the genocide ongoing the Palestinian people” in the context of the war between e according to the organizers. In the early hours of Tuesday, Global Sumud flotilla reported on Instagram social network that one of the boats “was hit by what is suspected to be a drone” in Tunisian Águas.
The organization shared a video of a security camera installed on the boat, where a tinnitus is heard. Then an activist shouts and retreats before an explosion is heard. A flash illuminates the area. The fire caused on the deck was quickly extinguished, found an AFP journalist present in Sidi Bou Said, near the capital of Tunisia.
Hundreds of people gathered in the port of the locality and shouted “Palestine Free, Palestine Free”. Flotilha stated that the six people on board were healthy and saved, reported on material damage and denounced “acts of aggression intended to derail [sua] Mission. ”The Tunisian National Guard, however, said after the incident that it had not detected” no drone “after the announcement of the flotilla.
“According to the preliminary conclusions, there was a fire in the life jackets aboard a boat anchored to 50 miles from the port of Sidi Bou Said and from Spain,” Houce Houce Eddine Jebabli, Tunisiana Guard spokesman. The information indicating the presence of a drone “lacks foundation,” insisted the National Guard in a later statement published on his official Facebook page, which was the hypothesis that the fire was caused by a cigarette.
Brazilian activist Thiago Ávila published on Instagram a video with the testimony of another member of the flotilla that claims to have seen a drone. “It was undoubtedly a drone that launched a bomb,” said the man, identified as Miguel. UN special rapporteur for Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, who lives in Tunisia and followed at night to Porto, shared on the social network x the video of the boat security camera.
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*With information from AFP
