{"id":125154,"date":"2025-09-09T12:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125154\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:49:06","slug":"bbc-verify-live-using-video-to-investigate-reported-strike-on-gaza-bound-flotilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125154\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Using video to investigate reported strike on Gaza-bound flotilla"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do videos tell us about purported Gaza flotilla drone attack?published at 12:22 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

12:22 BST<\/p>\n

Joshua Cheetham
BBC Verify journalist<\/p>\n

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CCTV footage shows a fire broke out towards the front of the ship<\/p>\n

This morning we\u2019ve been looking at several videos following claims that a ship which is part of a Gaza-bound aid flotilla was hit by a projectile off the coast of Tunisia.<\/p>\n

Tunisian authorities maintain a fire broke out in \u201cone of the ship’s life jackets, as a result of a lighter or cigarette butt\u201d. <\/p>\n

But video we\u2019ve verified shows something that looks like it\u2019s on fire streak through the night sky towards the vessel – called Family – before hitting its deck at the bow.<\/p>\n

As part of our analysis we\u2019ve been in touch with several experts including David Heathcote, head of intelligence at McKenzie Intelligence Services.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt looks like something that is already combusting is falling straight down on to the front of the ship,\u201d he told BBC Verify.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt could be that a drone was used to manoeuvre over the ship before the package was released on to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRegardless of the method of delivery, the impact video casts serious doubt on the Tunisian authorities\u2019 version of events,” he adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What do videos tell us about purported Gaza flotilla drone attack?published at 12:22 British Summer Time 12:22 BST…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-125154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}