Another residential high-rise in Gaza City reportedly intentionally destroyed by Israel.
I believe it to be the 4th such occurrence since they started proudly announcing destroying people's homes because, Israel claims, "Hamas" can see Israel's invading troops from that high up and therefore hundreds of people were made homeless, presumably to remove every tall object in the Gaza Strip.

Global Sumud Flotilla now:
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ALERT
The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) confirms that one of the main boats, known as the “Family Boat” - that was carrying GSF Steering Committee members, was struck by what is suspected to be a drone. The boat was under the Portuguese flag and all passengers and crew are safe. An investigation is currently underway and when more information is available it will be released immediately. 

Acts of aggression aimed at intimidating and derailing our mission will not deter us. Our peaceful mission to break the siege on Gaza and stand in solidarity with its people continues with determination and resolve.
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Global Sumud Flotilla: "The moment our main boat, which was carrying our steering committee members, known as the “Family Boat” was struck by a drone."

Global Sumud Flotilla now:
"More footage from Family Boat’s CCTV confirming the drone strike."

More on from the Global Sumud Flotilla:
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Footage from another boat of our Flotilla shows the exact moment the Family Boat was struck from above.
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For context (apart from everything earlier in this thread):
In the current version of the Reuters article (linked to earlier):
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Tunisian authorities said the explosion originated inside the vessel, and Tunisia's National Guard spokesperson told Mosaique FM radio that reports of a drone attack on the flotilla "have no basis in truth".
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But in the video you can see that their statement can not be accurate, since an object apparently on fire strikes the boat straight from above.

@b9AcE What's supposed to be DOING the exploding on a ship carrying no munitions? Only thing I can think of munitions launched from outside.

I suppose if the warhead was on a delay fuze and detonated after piercing the deck they could call it an "internal explosion" but this would be playing with words like they were a Fiddle of Lies.

@LukefromDC In article in a Swedish major newspaper, Aftonbladet, in my translation
Tunisia's "National Guard the preliminary findings indicate that the fire started among the boat's life jackets" and AFP via SR says same National Guard blames "a cigarette on board",
but again, that does appear to be inaccurate.

@b9AcE Those do not cause explosions like we see in the video. The flash is too bright and too short for a gas tank going off, and I doubt any fireworks were within 50 miles. That's a detonation of high explosive, not burning life jackets.

@LukefromDC At the start of the latest video can be seen an object emitting sparks hitting the boat straight from above.

@b9AcE That makes it even more clear. Sparks could be a rocket motor at the end of its burn, modern fuzes are entirely internal.

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Actual damage seems quite limited, instagram.com/p/DOXMcSciJdO/?l

So my guess is a fairly primitive fire bomb dropped from a drone, maybe an attempt to make the strike less attributable to the Israelis.
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