What happened on the Gaza Flotira ship and the ship on board?Published on October 3rd
Richard Irvine-Brown, Matt Murphy and Sebastian van der Meyer
BBC Verification
As we have previously reported, the last of the 42 global Kurdish fleets was intercepted.
Some of the ships were seen reaching the Ashdod Naval Base in Israel on Thursday.
Some of Flotilla's ships are transmitting AIS data, meaning they can be tracked on the Marinetraffic website.
For example, Estrella Y Manuel can be seen separating others from Gaza about 50 nautical miles on Wednesday night and the route for Ashdod, which has been anchored since Thursday night, is constantly changing.
As of Friday morning, AIS data placed the last known posts of the five fleets in the ports – Estrella Y Manuel, Adara, Capten Nikos, ohwayla and seulle.
Hundreds of their men were taken to a Liberian-signed container ship, Johannesburg MSC, at the time 26 nautical miles from Ashdod, a statement from Flotilla said on Thursday.
This morning it was located on the North Pier of Ashdod Harbour.
The BBC verified that the IDF has asked whether it plans to return the ship to its owner and how long the ship will last.
Update 14:21: The MSC operating Johannesburg told the BBC to verify that the statements of the Flotilla organizers were “incorrect”, plus Johannesburg “is a container ship,” not a naval ship. We have contacted Sumud Flotilla around the world to respond.