Italy's Defense Minister Guido Crosetto dispatched a navy frigate to aid a Gaza-bound flotilla Wednesday after organizers reported that several boats were targeted by multiple drones off the coast of Greece.
The Global Sumud Flotilla said more than a dozen explosions were heard around the flotilla as it sailed off Greece late on Tuesday, with damage caused by "unidentified objects" dropped on deck.
"To ensure assistance to the Italian citizens on the 'Flotilla' ... I spoke with the Prime Minister and authorised the immediate intervention of the Italian Navy's multi-purpose frigate Fasan, which was sailing north of Crete as part of Operation Safe Sea," Crosetto said in a statement posted by the ministry on X.
"The vessel is already en route to the area for possible rescue operations," he said.
Crosetto expressed "the strongest condemnation" of the "attack" on the flotilla using "drones by currently unidentified perpetrators."
