The coordinator of an Irish ship bound for Gaza in an international flotilla, Dr Fintan Lane, told Ynet Israel had sabotaged the ship so that it would sink in mid-sail, not in order to prevent it from sailing.
"If we had not spotted the damage as a result of a short trip in the bay, we would have gone to sea with a dangerously damaged propeller shaft," he said, adding that people could have died. (Aviel Magnezi)