WATCH: Activists Scramble to Abandon Ship After Greta Thunberg’s Gaza Flotilla Rocked by Explosion

Footage recorded by activists shows the moment that Greta Thunberg’s Gaza-bound boat was rocked by an explosion before catching fire off the Tunisian coast on Monday night, forcing activists to abandon ship.

The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), a coalition of some 20 vessels carrying activists from 44 countries, said a Portuguese-flagged ship carrying the flotilla’s steering committee suffered fire damage.

Remarkably, no one was injured.

The group claimed that the vessel was “struck by what is suspected to be a drone.”

“I was sleeping when I heard this explosion,” journalist Yusuf Omar, who is aboard the flotilla, told The Independent. “A big explosion happened right next to our diesel tank… The neighboring boats spotted a drone coming in.”

Another eyewitness told the outlet: “I saw a drone dropping a bomb on us. There was a fire on the front deck that we fought. It is out now. Everybody’s safe.”

Additional footage released by GSF shows a fireball falling from the sky onto the boat before the explosion:

But Tunisian officials have expressed frustration at the claim that the boat was targeted by a drone.

Houcem Eddine Jebabli, a spokesperson for the Tunisian national guard, told AFP that those reports “have no basis in truth.” He added that preliminary findings suggested the blaze started in a stack of life jackets, possibly triggered by a cigarette.

The flotilla set sail from Barcelona on Aug. 31, carrying food, water, and medicine, in what activists call the largest civilian maritime mission of the war. It aims to challenge Israel’s naval blockade, imposed since 2007.

Thunberg, greeted by cheering crowds in Tunisia last week, declared: “Just across the water, there’s a genocide going on, a mass starvation by Israel’s murder machine.”

Israel already seized one Thunberg-led vessel over the summer and is reportedly considering intercepting and arresting her again.

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