In a video posted by activist Yasmin Akar, she said: "We identified the first drones. From what we see, above every boat in the flotilla there is now a drone." Akar, who was filmed in October celebrating Iran’s missile strike on Israel, added that the sightings occurred when the flotilla was about 170 kilometers (105 miles) from the island of Mallorca.
Another clip posted on Instagram showed panic aboard one of the vessels, with a participant asking Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg: "Greta, is there anything above us?" Thunberg has shifted much of her campaigning to anti-Israel causes since the Gaza war began and joined a similar flotilla in June.
...According to the activists, participants from 44 countries are involved. Organizers promised this would be the largest flotilla to date. The French news agency AFP reported that, alongside Thunberg, participants include Irish actor Liam Cunningham, Spanish actor Eduard Fernández, and European politicians, among them former Barcelona mayor Ada Colau.