A Gaza \u201cfreedom flotilla\u201d says one of its vessels is on fire and has issued an SOS, after what it claimed was a drone attack off the coast of Malta in international waters. <\/p>\n
Acar said the ship had \u201csent out SOS calls to the surrounding countries, including Malta\u201d and that a \u201csmall boat\u201d from Southern Cyprus had been sent. She added she had been able to contact crew members after the SOS signal was sent out. <\/p>\n
Video the coalition posted on its X account appeared to show a fire burning on a ship, as well as smoke. The sound of two loud explosions can also be heard in a separate video clip. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur vessel is 17 kilometers off the shores of Malta right now in international waters, and they have been subjected to a drone attack twice,\u201d said Acar, adding that the generators at the front of the vessel were the apparent target. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis boat, however, is not providing electricity that is needed on the vessel right now,\u201d she said, saying the coalition was not able to contact the burning vessel. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have 30 international human rights activists on that vessel at this very moment on a vessel that is sinking,\u201d said Acar. <\/p>\n
The flotilla did not accuse any party of being behind the claimed drone attack. <\/p>\n
Marine traffic websites list the ship Conscience as flying under Palau flag and show it was located off the eastern coast of Malta on Friday morning. <\/p>\n
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition describes itself on its website as an international network of pro-Palestinian activists working to end Israel\u2019s blockade of Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid to the besieged enclave by taking direct, non-violent action.<\/strong> <\/p>\n This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/i> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Gaza \u201cfreedom flotilla\u201d says one of its vessels is on fire and has issued an SOS, after what it claimed was a drone attack off the coast of Malta in international waters. Acar said…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/invest360pro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}