In the Mediterranean, a ship carrying humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza Strip sent out a distress signal overnight after it was bombed by drones in international waters near Malta. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition is blaming Israel. The attack set the ship on fire, punched a substantial breach in its hull and cut off communication with those aboard. The Maltese government said 12 crew members and four civilians were “confirmed safe” after a nearby tug helped put out the flames. Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is among 40 humanitarian volunteers who’d been planning to board the vessel, named the Conscience, to set sail for Gaza this weekend.

Greta Thunberg: “The silence and the passivity, largely, from the outside world is completely deadly. And we all have a moral responsibility to act against that and to do our part to demand accountability for war criminals and our own governments’ complicity in this genocide and illegal occupation and siege.”

After headlines, we’ll have an update on the attack on the Freedom Flotilla with retired U.S. Army colonel and former diplomat Ann Wright.