🚨 🧵Breaking: The Gaza-bound aid ship #Conscience was hit by drones in international waters just 17 nm off Malta—Israel’s blockade tactics have reached Europe’s doorstep. Full story👇
Eyewitness video shows two blasts that disabled the generator and set the deck on fire. All 16 passengers and crew survived after an SOS. Maltese rescue units are towing the ship to port. (AP)
2/6 Survivors and the #FreedomFlotilla Coalition say Israeli drones carried out the strike. Israel has remained silent. (Middle East Eye, ABC)
3/6 An intentional strike on a civilian aid ship in international waters violates the UN Charter, the Law of the Sea, and the Rome Statute, which prohibit attacks on humanitarian objects.
4/6 This attack fits a well-documented pattern: the use of force to block aid ships headed to Gaza—long before they reach its shores. Maritime relief has been targeted before. This isn’t the first time.
5/6 We demand an independent, transparent investigation under Maltese jurisdiction with United Nations participation. We demand immediate guarantees of safe maritime passage for humanitarian relief to Gaza. We demand accountability for those who ordered or executed this attack.
6/6 Anything less greenlights future assaults on lifesaving missions and deepens Gaza’s manufactured humanitarian catastrophe. States cannot claim neutrality while ignoring this crime.
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