As a wave of reports swept through international and Arab media claiming an Israeli warship called INS Komemiut, had docked at Tangier Med Port for supplies, Assahifa Arabic obtained information denying that the Israeli ship was in the Moroccan port.
According to two independent sources contacted Assahifa, the ship named INS Komemiut is not an Israeli warship as has been circulated, but rather a cargo ship that passed through the international waters of the Strait of Gibraltar, which is controlled by three countries: Morocco, Spain, and Britain through the territory of Gibraltar.
The sources indicated that the ship sailed from a US port to the port of Haifa. Upon crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, the ship turned off its reception and transmission devices that determine its location, making it difficult to determine its destination or the port where it docked. Assahifa sources confirmed that the closest option, if it wanted to dock, would be the port of Gibraltar, which enjoys self-governance under Britain, one of Israel's closest allies in the region.
Assahifa sources pointed out that such ships often do not need to enter any port to refuel or provision as there are private companies in major international ports that carry out the operation in international waters, which is what the Israeli ship INS Komemiut probably did if it did not dock at the Gibraltar military port used by British forces as an advanced military base in the Mediterranean Sea.
According to a search conducted by Assahifa through the Israeli ship's route as it passed through the waters of the Strait of Gibraltar, the docking of the ship INS Komemiut at the Tangier Med Port remains a "guess" and a hypothesis that there is no precise information to confirm it.
Referring back to a report by the Israeli online newspaper "Globes", the latter initially indicated that the vessel in question had contacted the port of Tangier for supplies, but did not say that the refueling took place at the port, before returning in one of the paragraphs to say that the refueling took place at the Moroccan port, but after the ship turned off its reception and transmission devices that determine its location, raising questions about how the aforementioned newspaper learned of the ship's location after its location identification disappeared.
The independent sources said in this context that the ship in question is likely to have docked for a period in the Gibraltar military port or in international waters, before completing its route towards Israel, pointing out that Britain is considered an ally of Israel in the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip at present, therefore, it is the most preferred destination for Israeli ships, not Morocco.
Regarding the ship's turning off of its reception and transmission devices that determine its geographical location, the same sources said that this is basically due to London's reluctance to cause further internal tensions, especially since the British capital has witnessed in recent weeks numerous protests by human rights organizations and associations calling on London not to sell arms to Israel.
British activists have attacked several British military installations in recent weeks, suspected of manufacturing weapons that are sent to Israel, at a time when pressure is mounting on London to take a position that contributes to stopping the bloodshed committed by the Israeli military machine in the Gaza Strip against Palestinian civilians, under the pretext of eliminating the Hamas resistance movement.
