Gaza aid flotilla says second boat hit by suspected drone in Tunisian waters
British-flagged Alma was struck off Tunisia’s coast just a day after another of the flotilla’s vessels was hit in a similar incident
Organisers of a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists said late Tuesday that another of their boats had been struck in a suspected drone attack off Tunisia’s coast.
Aiming to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, the flotilla was due to resume its voyage on Wednesday after being delayed multiple times by weather and other issues.
“Second night, second drone attack,” Melanie Schweizer, one of its coordinators, said.
The British-flagged Alma was docked in Tunisian waters on Tuesday, when it was “attacked” and “sustained fire damage on its top deck”, the Global Sumud Flotilla said in a statement, adding no one was hurt.
Agence France-Presse journalists at the scene saw a boat in the distance surrounded by Tunisian law enforcement vessels with flashing lights.