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    Additional info: two US/Israeli planes were spotted flying near Tunesia before the bombing happened. Though the C-130 is likely picking up EU and US weapons for the genocide in Gaza. The Gulfstream 5 plane is much more suspicious.

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      Internet expert here, but my bet would be that it was a incendiary grenade or some other magnesium based device dropped from a drone. A missile strike/airborn cannon fire looks very differently. None of the planes a combat airframes.

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        Yes the bombing was according to witnesses on the boat done a quadcopter. Missiles also drop diagonally, and this was from the top.

        Still the Gulfstream looks suspicious. It might have landed the drone crew and a boat. Or dropped the drone from the air. Or maybe it is not related at all.

        In any case the Tunesian coast guard denied there being a bombing and says a life jacket caught fire. Which does not check out and only makes this more suspicious.

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          Hard to believe it’s in any way connected. I’d be extremely surprised if Mosad/Aman didn’t have sufficient resources in Libia, especially minding what they had in place in Iran, and how important Libia is. But also; they dont stand to gain anything from this attack and not in line with their doctrine; they don’t to symbolic attacks, they go all out in a show of force. This meanwhile stirs up interest and support for the flotilla, without causing major issues outside of single boat. Id expect that to be an attack from any other actor looking to stir shit up, rather than Israel.

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    The Global Sumud Flotilla is an international, civil society-led maritime initiative launched in mid-2025, aiming to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza …Wikipedia

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      Countries that were supposed to participate but ultimately did not

      🇮🇳 👀

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    It was reported by people on the boat that it was a drone. They noticed it before the weapon was deployed and were able to run to the other end of the vessel to avoid injury.