By Ghalia Mohamed
Social media users condemned Israel’s drone strike on the vessel and demanded international action.
2 May 2025 – Social media has erupted in anger after Israeli drones struck a ship with 30 rights activists and humanitarian aid headed for the besieged Gaza Strip.
Today’s attack appeared to target the ship’s generator, causing a fire and power outage on the ship while it was in international waters near Malta, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), a coalition of nonviolent activists campaigning to end the Israeli siege on Gaza, which organised the mission.
The organisers said they had been operating under a media blackout to “limit Israeli sabotage” in their attempt to deliver aid to the war-torn enclave, where Israel has blocked the entry of food, water, fuel and medicine for two months.
Israel’s attack on the ship, the Conscience, sparked fierce condemnation online, as well as calls on international leaders to take action.
“Where’s the condemnation? Where’s the action? The hypocrisy is sickening, and the violence is unforgivable,” wrote one user on X, formerly Twitter.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted: “Genocide in Gaza was apparently not enough for the Israeli government, which is now committing acts of state terrorism on a global scale.
“From bombing a humanitarian aid flotilla in international waters to bombing Damascus near the Syrian presidential palace, the war criminals of the Israeli government are completely out of control.”
Another user wrote that Israel was “redefining what it means to be a rogue state”.
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Source: transcend.org