{"id":127458,"date":"2025-09-10T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127458\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T11:36:09","slug":"bbc-verify-live-digging-into-claims-of-attacks-on-gaza-bound-flotilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/127458\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Digging into claims of attacks on Gaza-bound flotilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What multiple videos tell us about Monday\u2019s alleged strike on Gaza-bound flotillapublished at 11:34 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>11:34 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\">Richard Irvine-Brown and Sherie Ryder<br \/>BBC Verify<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This morning we are looking into fresh claims of an attack against a flotilla of ships bound for Gaza, attempting to deliver aid. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organisers of the Global Sumud Flotilla say a fire broke out on one of its vessels &#8211; Alma &#8211; on Tuesday night following an alleged attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It comes after the organisers alleged another boat, Family, had been attacked the previous day. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cwyd3vxdgx1t?post=asset%3Ab95b52e3-8f99-44ed-8b9c-0f5e03a106b5#post\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">We authenticated five videos that gave us a well-rounded picture of what happened.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In one video, filmed from on board the Family, smoke can be seen coming from the vessel\u2019s port bow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The person filming claims they have been struck by what appears to be a drone, and the boat is on fire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We know the vessel is the Family, as many elements &#8211; a ladder, the black stripes on the rear of the bridge, the signalling light on the starboard side, the awning and structures at the stern &#8211; are all the right size and in the right place compared with recent photographs of the ship.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Five frames of a video showing what looks like a strike on a boat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/e85d34a1-195f-46e2-a594-e3f1b0a8a6cb.png.webp.webp\"  width=\"3665\" height=\"1280\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Telegram \/ Global Sumud Flotilla<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Second, CCTV from a different boat shows the boat that was struck &#8211; which is the right size and shape for the Family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It also helps that the lights seen in the distance on the coast can be used to corroborate the known position of the Family at the time according to ship-tracking website MarineTraffic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Using those references we can say the ship is off the Tunisian coast, near the capital Tunis. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Three further CCTV videos from the Family tie all this together. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The explosion is at the port bow, the lights of Tunis are in the right place, the timecode from these match the CCTV on the other vessel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plus, in the two cameras looking behind the Family we can see the second boat in the right position to have filmed the moment of impact. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What multiple videos tell us about Monday\u2019s alleged strike on Gaza-bound flotillapublished at 11:34 British Summer Time 11:34&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-127458","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\/127458","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=127458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}