A ship carrying supplies bound for the Gaza Strip was attacked by Israeli drones in international waters on Friday, according to the activist group that organized the flotilla. The vessel reportedly took at least one direct hit to its hull and sustained damage from fire, forcing its crew to issue an urgent call for help.
Organizers with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) said one of their vessels was attacked by an unidentified drone in the early hours of Friday morning, noting the ship was not far off the coast of Malta when it was hit.
“At 00:23 Maltese time, the Conscience, a Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship, came under direct attack in international waters,” the group said in a press release. “Armed drones attacked the front of an unarmed civilian vessel twice, causing a fire and a substantial breach in the hull. [. . .] The drone strike appears to have deliberately targeted the ship’s generator, leaving the crew without power and placing the vessel at great risk of sinking.”
An FFC spokesperson, Caoimhe Butterly, later told Reuters that the ship was struck en route to Malta, where it was scheduled to pick up other activists, among them climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and retired US Army Colonel Mary Ann Wright. The group said it had arranged the aid shipment “under a media black out to avoid any potential sabotage.”

The FFC also shared footage which allegedly shows the aftermath of the strike, with smoke and flames seen on the ship. At one point in the brief video, an apparent explosion can be heard.
In a second press release, the group later shared a photo of the damage sustained in the strike.
Maltese authorities said they received an SOS call from a vessel in international waters soon after midnight local time, adding that a nearby tugboat assisted the ship, according to Reuters. Officials added that the crew of the Conscience declined to board the tugboat, and also confirmed to CNN that the fire on the ship had been extinguished. No casualties have been reported in the attack.
The FFC press release added that “Israeli ambassadors must be summoned and answer to violations of international law, including the ongoing blockade [on Gaza] and the bombing of our civilian vessel in international waters.”
In a social media post early on Friday, the United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, said she “received a distressed call from the people of the Freedom Flotilla that is carrying essential food and medicine to the starving Gaza population.”
“I call on concerned state authorities, including maritime authorities, to support the ship and its crew as needed. I trust the competent authorities will also ascertain the facts and intervene appropriately,” she added.
The Israeli military has yet to comment on the incident, but said it was looking into reports about the attack, according to the BBC. Israel’s Foreign Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Reuters.
The FFC mission aimed to bring supplies to Gaza some two months into a heightened blockade by Tel Aviv, whose forces have leveled much of the territory in air and ground operations in response to Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel. On Friday, the International Committee of the Red Cross said aid operations in Gaza were on the verge of “total collapse” thanks to the blockade.
In 2010, a similar humanitarian aid flotilla organized by the Free Gaza Movement and the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief, a Turkish org, was attacked by Israeli forces in international waters. Nine people were killed in the assault, with another later dying of their injuries, while dozens more were wounded. A UN report later found that all 10 activists had sustained gunshot wounds, and added that “the circumstances of the killing of at least six of the passengers were in a manner consistent with an extra-legal, arbitrary and summary execution.”
Will Porter is assistant news editor and book editor at the Libertarian Institute, and a regular contributor at Antiwar.com. Find more of his work at Consortium News and ZeroHedge.
" Aid Flotilla" Since when is one ship a flotilla?
Since when is at least three ships (one cargo, two passenger) one ship?
Timbit struggles to properly recognize the definition of "genocide" – let's not press him on big words so early in the day.
… we have to push it to reach the brain…!
Some efforts are doomed from the get-go.
Live and learn (in his case by others) is the name of the game…!
Maybe I missed it in the article, if so, kindly point out where in the article was there mention of the attacked ship being escorted by others.
The article neither mentioned the other ships nor gave you grounds to infer that there was only one ship.
Use of the word “flotilla” clearly meant that there was more than one ship, so I went and looked it up at the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s web site (https://freedomflotilla.org/bts-factsheet/) instead of just using magic to divine a number that didn’t match the word.
lol
"Maybe I missed it in the article, if so, kindly point out," tim 'corpse-stench' burns fluttered airily..
And that is the first fucking thing you thought of?
Deny, Divert, Dodge. The holy trifecta of Apologists of any stripe.
too much credit, imho –
'dodge'? that imbecile? that thick moral sick fuck near-pitiable social wretch? don't think so…
and Deceive
And the second thing I thought of was your inability to write a comment without using the F word.
"the second thing I thought of was your inability to write a comment without using the F word."
vs yr "comments," which give off Gazan corpse smell.
Then you don't read many of my comments. I do drop a lot of "F" bombs, but I certainly don't drop them with every FUCKING comment I make.
More fairy dust tossed in an effort to distract from the crimes of the Israelis.
"fairy dust tossed in an effort to distract from the crimes of the Israelis."
flowery cologne sprinkled over reeking butchery
… The joke of the Weekend…!
Who cares about the semantics, it is unforgivable evil and viscous. Judaism and Christianity grew on the same tree.
You question the semantics but not the evil action, , too bad it is only one ship and even that little was attacked by Israeli drones in INTERNATIONAL water and that means nothing to you? Bu if the Houthis block any ship the good Christians scream bloody murder. What a disgusting POS the Zionists and the democratic Atlantic NATO nations are.
"Who cares about the semantics…"
OH BE CAREFUL, Twisted Lysister ! I think it's a deportable offense now in the USA to be antisemantic !!!
"antisemantic" I love it!!
Yes. I think I read his comment 3 times before it hit me.
It’s open-source, use as you like !
"Who cares about the semantics, it is unforgivable evil an-"
Shh! Can you not see he is inspecting a thread of lint?
I did not, it hit me over the head unexpected.
Exactly! I was waiting for someone to point out the obvious. A humanitarian ship was attacked in international waters, and the dodgers ask how many ships? Maybe it had weapons? Maybe they were "Islamists?" Hamas leaders were fleeing Gaza?
Everything except facing up to the criminal nature of this criminal state.
There was more than one ship.
More fairy dust tossed in an effort to distract from the crimes of the Israelis.
Evidently this was an error of the part of the Apartheid State of Israel – they were convinced the Conscience was a clearly marked & identified US Navy surveillance ship. And while the ASI mildly regrets the error (it's easier & less paperwork to attack and kill American sailors) it's still going to consider this a "win".
ASI?
Apartheid State of Israel
Apartheid State of Israel.
psychopathic #@$@#$#@#@!!!
A psychopath does not recognize right from wrong.
Israeli Zionist do.
No, the State of Israel is not psychopathic, it is quite calculating and evil.
Nah, psychopaths know right from wrong, they just don’t care.
You’re thinking of a legal definition of insanity.
It is the epitome of psychopathy: Psychopathic Personality Disorder, often referred to as psychopathy, is a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of interpersonal, emotional, lifestyle, and antisocial behaviors. It’s not a formally recognized diagnostic term in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), but it’s closely associated with Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD). Individuals with psychopathic tendencies often exhibit a lack of empathy, remorse, and guilt, alongside manipulative and deceptive behaviors.
War Crimes yet?!?!
Not quite…! Until we hear some whisperings…!
*Mumbles Hamas 15 times*
Maybe they just thought it was the USS Liberty again.
… Like the Good 'o Times…!
USS Liberty? What USS Liberty. That only exists in the minds of antisemites. In a world where Israel is always on the defensive, the Earth is flat, and the Sun is its planet. God said so.
The USS Liberty is a bogus issue. That was 57 years ago, and a ship that was in the middle of a war was attacked.
Since then, Israel has been classified as a "major non-NATO ally."
You might as well focus on Pearl Harbor, or the British burning down the White House. It's not relevant.
https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/1918304040976367639
Is there NO limit? Israel is making it very difficult not to wish they were a smoldering pile of ash.
That… they are…!
"Israel is making it very difficult not to wish they were a smoldering pile of ash."
Israel and the US have wished it on themselves – they're just not admitting to citizens the threat they've created:
"Anticipating the Gaza-Driven Terrorism Surge" (Lawfare, 2/25/24)
"Dirty Bomb – Wikepedia – Since the 9/11 attacks, the fear of terrorist groups using dirty bombs has increased, [as] frequently reported in media."
America and Israel, thx for the next rash of 911's. Find a mirror – start practicing looking angry and confused and innocent while repeating, 'Why do they hate us?'
Maybe. The alternatively a rash of Luigi attacks might be more effective at driving a wedge between regular americans and the oligarchs and their bootlickers (to be fair, very little driving would be necessary).
The Liberty Ship.
If the ship was struck by Israel drones, suicide or conventional , there will be evidence. Let's see if they come up with some.
True. But by way of circumstantial evidence, during a previous Freedom Flotilla, Israeli pirates murdered 10 people aboard the Mavi Marmara and stole it and two other ships from international waters, eventually giving them back. So it’s not like the Israeli regime doesn’t have a history of attacking Gaza aid ships in international waters.
teaching the rookie…!?
Is one allowed to ask "cui bono"
No, I think that might be anti-Semitic.
But you are allowed to as ask "Why did the Jews kill Jesus", according to the amended Anti-Semitism Awareness Act };-)>
"If the ship was struck by Israel drones…there will be evidence. Let's see if they come up with some."
"Come up with some"?
Wake up, corpse stench – Israel admitted it.
Omigosh! Who woulda guessed?
Time fr Corpse-Stench "Burns" to go from 'weaseling doubting of claim & evidence' to 'outright apologetics.'
"BREAKING: Israel Confirms Attack on Freedom Flotilla Ship"
"Israel officially admitted to targeting the Freedom Flotilla ship…The revelation [was] reported by Hebrew Channel 12."
https://trendsnewsline.com/2025/05/02/breaking-israel-confirms-attack-on-freedom-flotilla-ship/
"Malta investigates neutrality breach after Israeli plane seen in airspace before flotilla attack"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/malta-investigates-neutrality-breach-after-israeli-plane-seen-in-airspace-before-flotilla-attack
CORRECTION: Israel did NOT admit targeting flotilla.
The news source I cited either mistakenly or falsely reported it.
As of now (5/4), to my knowledge, the Israeli government has remained virtually silent on the question, and no other news reports its admitting to either the act, or to the Israeli military plane that radar identified in the vicinity at time.
"Official Response Israel Stays SILENT on Attack (5/4):
As if it will matter. They can be filmed murdering 15 medical workers in cold blood and still not a damn thing was done about it.
That is the brutal truth.
How about we end all aid to the Israeli war criminals and break the blockade that's starving Palestinian children in Gaza, instead?
How about we end all aid to the Israeli war criminals and break the blockade that's starving Palestinian children in Gaza, instead?
There is a pattern here.
The moral, brave Israeli military consistently attacks targets that cannot fight back.
Quite cowardly, actually.
One-way war…!
Massacre/slaughter/genocide.
To the extreme…!
The google news feed on my phone didn't even mention this! That shows you how much power google has. google is totally slanted towards NWO, globalism, Zionism and starting and continuing wars. Remember the MIC, gov. and MSM are all connected in the stock market and endless wars are good for profits.
It's fairly visible (only about halfway down the "World" page even many hours later) on the Google News web browser version:
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e714f8bcc72bb3f00d94da84677e3e2940fbbff92a42a37623c83c52321a046d.png
It wasn’t at the time I posted it. Now its on the google feed, a little late, as you indicated.
I noticed it at the top of my Google feed within an hour of the time stamps on the initial reports. It was only half a day or so later that it had worked its way down the page some.
Guess you didn't like the Giraldi article. Too bad, shows how deep the infection goes, doesn't it? Gonna ban me again? Didn't know you were pro-Trump, you keep saying you're an anarchist, but I fail to see that persuasion in your posts.
I’m not pro-Trump, and whether I like the Giraldi article or not is irrelevant. There was an editorial decision from above my head more than 11 years ago that resulted in neither Giraldi nor Unz Review being welcome here.
Do you know why? Giraldi sounded pretty levelheaded to me.
I don't know the precise details, although it had something to do with Giraldi reaching a point where he couldn't go for more than a paragraph without saying (or at least darkly hinting) that "the Jews" are behind every problem.
OK, got it. Maybe you should list the sites Antiwar doesn’t like and it will save you time removing any content people may post here.
The guidelines are posted at the top of each commenting link.
I saw nothing hateful in the articles you blocked. But, perception is subjective and comes from information and experience.
Google (Alphabet) is very Zionist, barely a notch less than FB (Meta): censorship is overwhelming.
If only one of the Mediterranean powers (I don't care if Turkey or France, Spain or Italy, Russia or Britain) had the honorability of actually assuming the obligations of the International Convention against Genocide and send a fraction of their Navy to the Gazan waters (which are NOT under any Israeli jurisdiction but only Palestinian sovereignty), the neonazi lords of Tel Aviv would chicken and humanitarian aid would reach Gaza. Egypt could and should also intervene by land.
Agreed…! A naval resistance force should be established coming from the Mediterranean's direction towards the Israeli shores…!
So….now it’s going to be illegal not to buy things from Israel?
Lara Friedman @LaraFriedmanDC
Argh – typo on the bill – should be HR 867
https://x.com/LaraFriedmanDC/status/1918413862165975165
They have to figure out how to Enforce it First…!
I’m sure it will be as organized and professional as arresting legal residents who write op-eds.
An interview with Helen, one of the members of the Freedom Flotilla:
Malta is actively cooperating with the Genocide.
The US Navy will be sent right away about this.
You know, to protect "freedom of the seas". international waters.
Also, wait for Trump to sanction Israel for this as well as seek a UN censure of Israel.
I am not sure I understand Israel’s end game expectations.
Let us just assume the diabolical and dystopian expectations of Gaza humsns simly vanishing one day into tge thin air — it will not reverse the design on Lebanon or Syria. Nor have Israel withdwaw from any of those occupied terrotories. Perhaps, merely guessing that the expusion from Palestinians from West Bank is the next project, so agresdive pisture against neighbors is a good way to keep wveryone off balance.
Or simply it is testing the theory that no matter what Israel decides to take next — wiill not be resisted by any regional state. Or is it really Iran that is important target?
Is it really Israel’s obsession? Orbit is US geopolitical imperative. After sll Trump declared recently — not entirely jokingly — that he rules Us and the world.
In short, Empire is the objective, Bigger and better.
So what is US interest in Iran. The already being under develolment and upgrade — North South corridor. Iranian ports on Indian Ocean are end points of rail and road links connecting China, Central Asia and Russia to open ocean unrestricted by straitsvor canals.
At African end — startng from East Africa diagonally across Sahel countries another coridor is planbed connectig Indian Ocean and all land licked countriex to Atlantic Ocean at Mauritania and otherxin African Atlantic coast. All altrnatives to Maalaka straits, Bab Sl-Mmandeb Straits, uez Canal Gibraltar or even Bosporus, or in the case of Russia even Baltic Sea.
US favors India to UAE Saudi Arabia to Israel route as the connectivity to Mediterranean and Europe.
Kako je Britanska imperija prosperirala od kintrole trgovine danas US je redefinirala taj princip u trgovinski vojni. Kontrola vitalnuh geografskih tocaka je postala kombinacija trgovinskih i vojnih ciljeva.
Israel je sada dobro pozicioniran da ugrozava tetitoriju svih susjeda — iako ninjedan od njih ne ugrozava Izrael. Sirijs nije pretnja u stvari pismusbi HTS leader insurex Israel of his peaceful intention. Naravno Jordan ior all Gulf countries have no capacity to fight. They have no geograohy or infrastructure ti figt a modern warfare.
In such environment Israrl is very likely to move up Euphrates in Syria, and pissibly northern Saydi Arabia. Not excluded is part od Sinai desert as a buffer.
None can be defended — Egypt is not ready at present as rearmament with non-US wealons has barelyvstsrted. Deal Russia has been implemented and deal with China is quite new.
With all the fears of Turkey mivig into Syria — fears have been exaggerated.
USS Liberty,,,shades of!! Israel is like a disease.
HOW does a drone target a ship's GENERATOR?
some drones are equipped with cameras so the drone operator can zero in on targets.
Or the drone could be programmed to home in on a particular heat signature.
Or… Israelis had the ship’s blueprints…!
War Crimes…..!
On the Day He Was Fired as National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz Used an Israeli App to Archive Signal Messages
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/mikewaltz-tech-israel-nationalsecurity-signal?r=2r5c7&triedRedirect=true
TeleMessage and Israeli Intelligence
During Wednesday’s meeting for Trump’s cabinet, Mike Waltz checked the app on his phone, using what appeared to be Signal. As news broke that Waltz had lost his job as National Security Advisor, images from the cabinet meeting circulated widely online on Thursday. Upon closer inspection of the photos, it turned out that Waltz was not using the traditional Signal app. He appeared to be using an archiving app made by Israeli firm TeleMessage, which sells companion apps meant to enable archiving messages.
In one of the Reuters photos of Waltz’s phone, a pop up appears with the text “Verify your TM SGNL PIN,” just below a message from Vice President JD Vance. TM SGNL is an aspect of TeleMessage’s software called “Signal Capture” that it sells to governments and corporations to enable archiving.
It’s unclear how the White House would implement a TeleMessage archive system. The company offers governments and businesses the option to exfiltrate data that automatically sends copies of messages to servers on-site or in the cloud. Compared against the traditional Signal app, this additional element introduces a greater risk whereby the secondary archival device could be accessed and rendered insecure.
The personal smartphones of U.S. national security officials are liable to be prime targets of spyware by foreign adversaries, including U.S. allies. When the revelations of widespread Signal usage were first published, many speculated about the endpoint security of senior Trump official’s smartphones.
more IDF “searching for the hostages”??
The World’s most cowardly army. 🐓
At least we don't have to pay any attention to the "How could the World have been silent?" stuff about the holocaust anymore. We know how it could happen, because we all witnessed it during the Gaza holocaust.
The world's not silent but the zionized world with it's sycophants and paid collaborators have the far more powerful microphone; outside that bubble are protests, boycotts, condemnations, sanctions, and international legal actions the framework of which were born of the Holocaust. Not nearly enough yet, but the zionized world is only ≈14% of the world population while the vast majority opposes it. It's expected the ICJ's advisory out of this week's hearing will give that vast majority more guidance.
Actually, I'm surprised that the whole crew of this aid ship was not killed! That would have been NORMAL compared to all the other things Israel is doing! And once again the international community would yawn and reiterate Israel's NON-EXISTANT "right to self-defense"! (occupying nations have NO right to self-defense, according to international laws!)
Apr 30, 2025 The Black Alliance for Peace Calls for International Popular Mobilizations to Stop Israel’s Genocidal Campaign to Starve Palestinians to Death!
The Israeli state’s starvation campaign in Gaza—backed by the U.S. and Europe—is a livestreamed genocide. As malnutrition ravages children and the West vetoes ceasefires, the 'rules-based order' reveals its truth: Palestinian lives are expendable. Liberation demands more than appeals to hollow institutions. It requires global anti-imperialist resistance to stop the siege before Israel’s 'final solution' is complete.
https://www.blackagendareport.com/black-alliance-peace-calls-international-popular-mobilizations-stop-israels-genocidal-campaign
https://www.blackagendareport.com/sites/default/files/2025-04/6%20845x400_0.png
Trump posts AI generated pic of himself as the next pope.
Obviously this is being used to dis Roman Catholics who the chosen ones still regard as their arch-enemy. The last pope whispered something about the Israeli policy in Gaza and that's so antisemitic it has to be addressed with insults coming from Wash. It's all about Zionist Israel, ya know??
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/944ca01a0a0463921d8368181edbcbfc11c41f7bbe631b85b517bea3b1da3e3c.png
Sooner or later it will occur to genocide Donny that he might want to eliminate the middle man, and simply take over as God.
… And No…! This stunt ain't gonna win him the Noble Peace Prize…!
https://x.com/i/status/1919031068092453076
Zionism fails to become a cruel imperialism of conquest, as practiced by the capitalist powers about 125–159 years ago, because no peace with the Islamic, Arab neighborhood emerges. The reputation of the Jewish religion and the Israeli state in the world is dwindling due to the violent settlers and the brutal, military reactions of the government of the Israeli state in Gaza etc. Some images from Gaza are reminiscent of the end of the Second World War and the liberation of the prisoners of the concentration, POW (captive), and labor camps in Germany etc.