In less than 72 hours, Israeli strikes have spread to several fronts: Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Qatar and Palestine. In this accelerated context, the question of Tunisia becomes legitimate and urgent: has Tunisia in turn become a target?

In Tunisia to be precise, on September 9, 2025, one of the ships in the Sumud Flotilla, called the "Family Boat", caught fire while docked in the port of Sidi Bou Saïd. Images, testimonies and independent sources confirmed that the fire was the result of an Israeli drone attack. For their part, the Ministry of the Interior and the National Guard issued official statements denying this scenario, claiming that the fire had started from inside, in part of the life jackets, and that no drone had been detected in the sky.

On September 10, 2025, another Sumud Flotilla vessel, christened "Alma", suffered a limited fire in Sidi Bou Saïd, which the crew attributed to a drone attack. This time, the Tunisian authorities have issued no official reaction, leaving a vacuum that accentuates the opacity of the facts.

This contradiction between what is documented by eyewitness accounts and what the authorities declare - or keep quiet about - does not dispel concern: it amplifies it and raises vital questions about information sovereignty, security and transparency.

The convergence between regional escalation and the incidents at Sidi Bou Saïd places the Tunisian government at the crossroads of two dynamics: a colonialism that extends its logic of force beyond borders, and a dictatorship that narrows the space of truth within. The inability of the authorities to deal with these facts with transparency is nothing more than a further admission of the limits of demagogy and authoritarianism: a posture which, instead of resisting the occupier, compromises itself in the concealment of the truth.

Dictatorship, even if less spectacular than massacres, is no less dangerous. The way the Tunisian government has reacted to a real attack on its sovereignty reveals the falsity of its discourse: a discourse that attacks the migrant and bows to the expeller, that produces injustice and is silent in the face of the oppressor, that opens prisons to free voices instead of protecting them.
As for colonialism, it is the outer face of this inner repression: it manufactures a livid reality, targeting free voices and courageous thoughts with violence, arrogance and barbarism. The occupying state never ceases to violate the law, norms, reason and humanity, finding in dictatorship an objective ally who prepares the ground for it by falsifying facts and muzzling consciences. If dictatorship stifles the voice inside, colonialism seeks to erase its echo outside. The result is the same: stifling the truth and criminalizing freedom.

Accordingly, we :

1. Let's renew our solidarity with the Sumud Flotilla and all its participants,
   
   
2. We condemn the repeated Israeli aggressions, which continue to intensify and spread,
3. Explicitly condemn the ongoing genocide in Palestine and the war crimes committed against civilians,
4. We call on the Tunisian authorities to show responsibility, courage and consistency, by acknowledging the truth in full and in full transparency,
5. We urge France and the European Union to assume their moral and legal responsibilities by imposing firm sanctions against the occupying state,
6. Let us invite Tunisian public opinion to reflect and question itself on the true identity of "sincere patriots": is it that of those who conceal the truth and confiscate freedom, or that of those who defend sovereignty, preserve dignity and stand by rights and freedoms?