#Turkey / #Palestine / #Israel 🇹🇷🇵🇸🇮🇱: Turkish Navy deployed boats to escort "Global Sumud Flotilla" to #Gaza.
— War Noir (@war_noir) September 29, 2025
Seemingly two possible "Kılıç-class" fast attack crafts / missile boats were deployed —armed with "Harpoon" Anti-Ship missiles and OTO Malera 76mm naval gun. pic.twitter.com/QSEB6gdQVR
Turkey saves activists from leaky ship, as Gaza-bound flotilla nears Israeli waters
[IsraelTimes] Red Crescent coordinates evacuation of 12 activists, after malfunction on one of 50 vessels aiming to break blockade on Strip and deliver symbolic humanitarian aid
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...helped evacuate activists aboard a Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
-bound flotilla after one of the vessels broke down and began taking on water, organizers and the Ottoman Turkish state-run news agency
...and if you can't trust the state-run news agency who can you believe?...
Anadolu reported Monday.
The Global Sumud Flotilla, which includes Swedish climate activist Greta "Pippi" Thunberg
...an autistic sixteen year old Swedish expert on climate change, though I guess she's older now...
among its participants on some 50 boats, departed from Barcelona earlier this month, aiming to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza and deliver symbolic aid to the war-torn enclave. It expects to reach the Gaza Strip on Tuesday or Wednesday, if it is not turned away before then.
In a statement posted on Instagram, the flotilla organizers said the mission was temporarily halted after one of the ships, Johnny M, sustained a leak in its engine room.
"All participants have been safely transferred to another vessel. Some will be reassigned to other ships, while others will be brought ashore," the statement said.
According to Anadolu, the vessel was located in international waters between Crete, Cyprus and Egypt when it issued a distress call early Monday.
Ottoman Turkish authorities, including the Ottoman Turkish Red Islamic Thingy, coordinated the evacuation effort.
Semih Fener, the captain of one of the ships dispatched to assist, told Anadolu the incident was due to a technical malfunction, not a sinking.
"We picked up 12 people and distributed them to other ships. Four people will return home," he said, adding that the evacuees would travel to their respective countries via Turkey.
The Ottoman Turkish Red Islamic Thingy confirmed to AFP it had coordinated the evacuation.
Wael Naouar, a front man for the flotilla’s Maghreb fleet, told Anadolu on Sunday the flotilla expects to reach Gaza, if it is not intercepted, by Tuesday, September 30, or Wednesday, October 1.
Previous flotillas have been stopped by Israeli forces some distance from the shore, and made to dock in Israel instead.
The Sumud flotilla paused for several days last week in Greek waters, and resumed sailing on Sunday.
It is being escorted by one Spanish and two Italian navy vessels, which their respective governments have clarified are not expected to use military force.
German activist and steering committee member Yasemin Acar says the Global Sumud Flotilla has entered the final stage of its journey. Organisers believe the fleet is approaching the same area where the Madleen ship from the previous Freedom Flotilla was intercepted.
The navy ships were dispatched after, last Wednesday, the flotilla was struck in international waters off Crete by drones armed with stun grenades and irritants, which caused damage but no injuries.
Flotilla organizers blamed Israel for the drone attacks. The Foreign Ministry did not respond directly to the accusation, but invited the flotilla to drop humanitarian aid
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