Gaza Flotilla - genuine peace activists or Hamas puppets?

Yes, all live streamed. I feel sick to think that Israel not only intercepted a flotilla carrying baby formula for babies that it is deliberately starving, but then stole it to try to claim there wasn’t any. How can that soldier not realise that people have seen it? It’s unbelievable that some people here are actually still buying into this propaganda. All the evidence is there. It feels like wilful ignorance.

Very concerned about the treatment of the crew at this point.

Everything to do with very large egos getting themselves into legal and practical dog shit which they then frantically try to lie their way out of.

Thats one way to describe the Israeli governments behaviour I suppose, there were no lights on, the IDF weren't in the area at the time, there was a 'Hamas camera'.

I don’t approve of Netanyahu’s government’s actions. I don’t condone them at all, save to say they had to do SOMETHING after 1,000 of their citizens were butchered. I completely acknowledge the civilian deaths are far too high to be ‘collateral’ (hate that word)

But there is frankly a contagious mental illness around Gaza which has very little to do with the Palestinian population and everything to do with very large egos getting themselves into legal and practical dog shit which they then frantically try to lie their way out of. There are too many ‘key players’ utterly out of their depth here who are doing more harm than good.

We are at a very delicate stage in the peace/negotiation process and Thunberg agitating for attention or to ease her conscience is NOT helping

Yeah, CBS News are the 'Palestine mob'. The list just keeps growing and growing doesn't it, I sure hope that those influencers Israel are paying are able to churn out their 'content' quickly enough to counter act this growing 'mob' of major news agencies.

Agreed.

The Palestine mob just lie relentlessly, I think they see the end as justifying the means.

They’re now trying to tell us Greta has been beaten up and forced to kiss an Israeli flag.

Yeah bloody right

What utter bollocks. Do have any idea of how much it would cost or the actual risk to send a submarine all the way from Israel to Tunisia and when they got there to launch two drones that then drop small incendiary devices on a yacht.

Whereas if you look at the actual footage it's clearly some dickhead from the flotilla that fired a flare gun at a shallow angle, causing the flare to descend on to bow of the yacht and leaving behind the obvious white powder of magnesium on the bollard.

CBS need to stop with the deliberate misinformation like this. I mean I could quote unidentified sources that told me it was caused by aliens but it doesn't make it credible.

Rachel Corrie, James Miller, Tom Hurndall, Shireen Abu Akleh, Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, the Mavi Marmara at least six of the passengers were murdered in a manner consistent with an extra-legal, arbitrary and summary execution.

Israel are experts at killing activists. Then people say that the people on the flotilla are pretending to afraid?! Who wouldn't be afraid.

In other news, it was a cigarette, it was a flare, it was seagulls or was it Netanyahu?

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/netanyahu-drone-attacks-gaza-aid-boats-tunisia/

You are correct that the story of Vittorio Arrigoni dates back to 2011.

However here are some more recent examples:

https://cpj.org/2025/05/gaza-journalists-speak-out-about-hamas-intimidation-threats-assaults/amp/

I see there is a bit of confusion and misinformation about Vittorio Arrigoni, the Italian activist who was kidnapped and murdered in Gaza. He went there in 2008 and was killed in 2011.

It's interesting to see Ben Gvir calling the lawyers, politicians and activists 'terrorists'. It would make you wonder how Israel categorise someone as a terrorist and just who have they been blowing up and calling terrorists in Gaza? Clearly there definition is very different to a lot of the world's if they are calling Greta Thunberg a terrorist.

Actually they made several silly videos on the flotillas the other day before they were intercepted to show their “dangerous cargo” - it was boxes of baby formula and food! Israel can claim what they like but there is video evidence to show exactly what was on the boats!

Lol.

'Guys, where's the baby milk?'

'Shit. Who packed the baby milk?'

there are lots of them for such a small boat, where on earth the aid might be, especially since they have to also eat

Maybe they ended up eating it! I've had badly organised camping trips myself.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/oct/01/israel-gaza-aid-global-sumud-flotilla-middle-east-crisis-latest-updates

The Guardian covers the gentle interception by the IDF with bright lights and water spray, looks pretty inoffensive. You can clearly see the number of activists on board the snall boat.

I've watched the video from the flotilla it shows bright lights so they can see everyone on board, and water being sprayed towards the boats. Someone says it's chemicals but another man on the boat says its water.

They are all sat on deck and there are lots of them for such a small boat, where on earth the aid might be, especially since they have to also eat, so logically, its minimal due to physical size of ship. Unless the boat is a tardis type myth of course.

They were safely secured away from the active war zone. They should be shown the fate of the poor deluded Italian activist that actually got into Gaza, only managed a few days before being killed by another terrorist group. At least they are safe and cannot end up like him.

Let's hope the peace plan works and they can return to just stop oil black life's matter or climate awareness (badly needed).

Was Egypt carpet bombing and starving the population at the same time?

It's a pretty harmless way of facilitating boarding without resorting to more aggressive force.

So a video on X showing there was no baby formula is your evidence that there wasn’t any? By the same people who deny withholding the baby food in the first place, even though several doctors volunteering at the bombed out hospitals in Gaza have testified that they were told to take it out of their luggage while babies are starving to death. You’re saying people lap up Insta and TkTok but what you lap up on X is ok?

And yes, of course the flotilla is about the genocide. Hundreds of people from over 40 nationalities were moved to take action because Israel, by its own admission, is blocking aid to a starving and desperate people. It’s called compassion.

There wasn't any side on their last escapade either. A small boat with enough supplies to feed them whilst they slowly sailed along. I understand they claimed they had baby milk, (that captured people), seems they didn't. It all adds to the white saviour narrative though, and people on Instagram and tick toc lap it up. Small soundbites of info with no actual depth works really well.

Anyway more importantly less hope the peace plan moves forward

That would mean capture or death. Even a pro Palestine activist was picked up in Gaza recently by a group that think Hamas is too moderate! That says how radicalised some are there. He was offered for ransom and then killed, even though he supported their cause.

There is no genocide on the futilla it was just a bit of water . If you can't see the funny side of this ludicrous charade that's fine, each to their own, but don't twist it into laughing at genocide.

How is this genocide funny?

Well they certainly aren’t officially saying they are used water canons on boats. Unlikely to have been a proportionate responses as they were not meeting violence and resistance.

Why would people on here bitchily target a brave young woman who is the age of many of our daughters, well intentioned and peaceable? There are 500 or more on the flotilla. This is bullying