{"id":10795,"date":"2026-05-19T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=10795"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T15:54:56","slug":"trump-says-he-was-an-hour-away-from-striking-iran-insists-war-is-very-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=10795","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he was &#8220;an hour away&#8221; from striking Iran, insists war is &#8220;very popular&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The organizers of the Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces on Monday said Tuesday that at least five of its boats &#8220;sustained shots&#8221; fired by the intervening soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>In two videos datemarked Tuesday of what appears to be the same incident, posted on the Global Sumud Flotilla&#8217;s (GSF) Telegram channel, activists on a vessel called the Girolama can be heard shouting &#8220;don&#8217;t shoot&#8221; as metallic pings are heard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A video posted by the group on X includes the caption: &#8220;With hands in the air, participants implored &#8216;do not shoot&#8217;. This is an attack on humanity. This is what apartheid looks like: when those trying to save lives are met with bullets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shots fired very clearly at Girolama boat,&#8221; wrote the GSF with two other videos posted on their Telegram page. The group said four other boats, named as the Munki, Elengi, Alcione and Zefiro, were also fired at.<\/p>\n<p>Neither the Israeli military nor the foreign ministry immediately responded to CBS News&#8217; request for comment on the GSF&#8217;s claims, and it was not clear from the video if live ammunition was used by the Israeli forces.<\/p>\n<p>One video posted by the group shows an Israeli soldier appearing to fire a weapon, but it is not clear what type of rounds were used.<\/p>\n<p>Of the original 70 vessels that left Turkey as part of the flotilla, only five were still navigating toward the Palestinian enclave on Tuesday, according to a tracker on the GSF website, having seemingly avoided Israeli interception.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gaza has been under an Israeli naval blockade since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces have stopped several previous GSF flotillas from reaching Gaza&#8217;s coast, arresting and deporting more than 470 people, <span class=\"link\">including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GSF said Tuesday that as far as it knows, &#8220;no-one has been seriously hurt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Trump says he was &#8220;an hour away&#8221; from striking Iran, insists war is &#8220;very popular&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>#Trump #hour #striking #Iran #insists #war #popular<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The organizers of the Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces on Monday said Tuesday that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[275,3002,318,2036,7367,535,415],"class_list":["post-10795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","tag-hour","tag-insists","tag-iran","tag-popular","tag-striking","tag-trump","tag-war"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tehran-iran-war-2276312786.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tehran-iran-war-2276312786-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tehran-iran-war-2276312786-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tehran-iran-war-2276312786-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tehran-iran-war-2276312786-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tehran-iran-war-2276312786.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tehran-iran-war-2276312786.jpg",1200,630,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tehran-iran-war-2276312786-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tehran-iran-war-2276312786-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=7\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}