Press TV – July 27, 2025
The Israeli regime’s naval forces have hijacked a British-flagged aid ship as it was heading towards the Gaza Strip so it can break the regime’s near-total siege of the territory.
Israeli media outlets reported the development on Saturday. The vessel, named Handala, had departed from Italy, carrying 21 unarmed activists — including parliamentarians, medics, and volunteers — towards the coastal sliver.
The crew reported seeing a drone hovering above the vessel before it was approached by Israeli navy ships.
They issued a “distress call” upon finding themselves in the situation.
Huwaida Araf, one of those on board, said after seeing the Israeli ships, the crew tried “to contact the Israeli Navy – but no response was received.”
Finally, Emma Fourreau, a French member of the European Parliament, who was traveling on Handala, announced the hijacking, stating, “The Israeli military is here.”
Footage streaming online showed the crew huddled together with their life jackets on as a precaution and holding their hands up as a means of trying to avoid confrontation.
“End the genocide,” Fourreau added, referring to the Israeli regime’s October 2023-present war of genocide on Gaza.
The war has witnessed the regime tightening its already strict 2007-present siege of the territory, therefore, preventing entry of almost all instances of direly-needed humanitarian aid.
Direct military assaults combined with the escalated restrictions, which have been denounced as a means of “weaponizing” starvation, has so far claimed the lives of more than 59,700 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
Handala was carrying humanitarian supplies, including baby formula, food, and medicine, amid the insufferable situation.
Last month, the Israeli military similarly hijacked a Gaza-headed aid vessel that was carrying 12 high-profile international campaigners.
Back in May too, Israeli drones had attacked a similar vessel boarded by Greta Thunberg, noted Swedish activist, and others as it was off Mata’s coastline.
Observers say such attacks show the regime’s preparedness to deploy armed violence towards denying Gaza’s Palestinians of crucial relief supplies that was also witnessed by a 2010 deadly attack on a Turkish-flagged aid vessel heading towards Gaza.
Do these filthy jews really imagine that they can recover from this???
Palestinian women were told to go to U.S.-run aid sites in Gaza. They were killed and beaten instead, eyewitnesses say.
The Israeli-backed and U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said that its distribution on Thursday would only be for Palestinian women. Eyewitnesses say that GHF staff pepper-sprayed them and beat them with batons, while two women were killed.
By Tareq S. Hajjaj July 24, 2025
*NOTE: Among Israel’s lies are numerous atrocity stories about the October 7th attack that have since been proven untrue (more examples here). In addition, a number of the Israeli soldiers and civilians killed on October 7 were shown to have been killed by Israeli fire – a fact that is absent from the official Israeli narrative. Another Israeli lie resulted in a devastating withdrawal of humanitarian aid funding for Gaza. Previously, Israel has been caught in many lies – for example, this and this and this.
READ MORE :
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/palestinian-women-were-told-to-go-to-u-s-run-aid-sites-in-gaza-they-were-killed-and-beaten-instead-eyewitnesses-say/
The Truman Show melodrama must go on. Notice the ‘death toll’ is now up to 59,700. Yet no dead bodies are ever shown. Sort of similar to how they claim 6 million morlocks were iced in the Hoaxlocaust, but no 6 million bodies have ever been found.
it would be more impressive for the world
if the pope would go to Gaza . but those
evil masonry supporting cowards dont go .
Zionist jews are the most evil, insidious filth
on earth . this includes sayanim in all the world .
When you have Jews near, you are going to get killed: Europe let them in and, bar the shouting, were exterminated by 1948