Local time on October 3,Central journalistIt was learned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directly approved the launch of military operations against two ships at the beginning of last month. The ships belong to a flotilla bound for Gaza, carrying aid supplies and pro-Palestinian personnel, including Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Two U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the matter revealed that on September 8 and 9, Israeli forces launched drones from a submarine and threw incendiary devices at ships anchored outside the port of Sidib Said in Tunisia, triggering a fire. Two officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about national security matters.
On September 9, local time, the "Global Resilience Fleet", a humanitarian rescue fleet supporting the Gaza Strip, issued a statement stating that from the evening of the 8th to the early morning of the 9th local time, one of the main ships of the fleet was attacked in Tunisian waters. Drone attack. (CCTV reporter Wu Hanying)