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[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Additional info: two US/Israeli planes were spotted flying near Tunesia before the bombing happened. Though the C-130 is likely picking up EU and US weapons for the genocide in Gaza. The Gulfstream 5 plane is much more suspicious.

[-] harcesz@szmer.info 35 points 1 month ago

Internet expert here, but my bet would be that it was a incendiary grenade or some other magnesium based device dropped from a drone. A missile strike/airborn cannon fire looks very differently. None of the planes a combat airframes.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Yes the bombing was according to witnesses on the boat done a quadcopter. Missiles also drop diagonally, and this was from the top.

Still the Gulfstream looks suspicious. It might have landed the drone crew and a boat. Or dropped the drone from the air. Or maybe it is not related at all.

In any case the Tunesian coast guard denied there being a bombing and says a life jacket caught fire. Which does not check out and only makes this more suspicious.

[-] harcesz@szmer.info 11 points 1 month ago

Hard to believe it's in any way connected. I'd be extremely surprised if Mosad/Aman didn't have sufficient resources in Libia, especially minding what they had in place in Iran, and how important Libia is. But also; they dont stand to gain anything from this attack and not in line with their doctrine; they don't to symbolic attacks, they go all out in a show of force. This meanwhile stirs up interest and support for the flotilla, without causing major issues outside of single boat. Id expect that to be an attack from any other actor looking to stir shit up, rather than Israel.

[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 month ago

And Tunisia is pretending it was a discarded cigarette or life vest

[-] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

cuck government

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

are you being glib or did this actually say this?

[-] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

The Tunisian National Guard said in a statement that there was no evidence that a ship had been attacked, dismissing social media reports to the contrary as “baseless.” Initial investigations indicated that the fire on the boat, which was docked in the port of Sidi Bou Said, appeared to have been caused by a cigarette butt or a lighter that ignited a life jacket, it added.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/world/africa/gaza-aid-flotilla-drone-tunisia.html

Tunisia:

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=812698534423606&id=100070504001587

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

i'm sad to learn that the tunisians are complicit like the egyptians are.

[-] harcesz@szmer.info 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The Global Sumud Flotilla is an international, civil society-led maritime initiative launched in mid-2025, aiming to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza ...Wikipedia

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Countries that were supposed to participate but ultimately did not

🇮🇳 👀

[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 23 points 1 month ago

Moments before the cigarette was dropped on the life jackets

[-] TheFrirish@jlai.lu 2 points 1 month ago

Wow what a cigarette throw that was!

[-] Embargo@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 month ago

It was reported by people on the boat that it was a drone. They noticed it before the weapon was deployed and were able to run to the other end of the vessel to avoid injury.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

next day Israel: Hamas drone!

[-] apftwb@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Wow. That's one big cigarette.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

more genocide enablers. at what point are the enablers also genocidal?

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