SummaryWe're monitoring the progress of a flotilla of vessels carrying activists who want to take aid to Gaza as it nears its planned destination They've been accompanied by Spanish and Italian navy vessels after reporting drone activity en route. Israel has said the flotilla should dock at one of its ports We've verified footage showing an oil refinery on fire north of the Russian capital Moscow – officials denied it was caused by a Ukrainian drone strike BBC Verify uses open-source intelligence, satellite imagery, fact-checking and data analysis to help report complex stories Thomas CopelandBBC Verify Live journalist We’ll be closing up this live page soon, so be sure to scroll back now to read what we’ve been working on today. The team has been keeping an eye on the Global Sumud Flotilla, a group of over 40 civilian boats seeking to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza. Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg is among the hundreds of activists on board the vessels, which are now fewer than 90 nautical miles from the coast of the Palestinian territory. We assessed what the flotilla is and tracked its progress in the eastern Mediterranean, spoke to a former intelligence chief for his assessment of how Israel will likely intercept them, and showed how viral footage claiming to be the flotilla is actually Turkish…
Published: October 1, 2025 4:18 pm
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