On Monday, the New York Post published footage showing crew members aboard the vessel Madleen, including Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, throwing their mobile phones into the Mediterranean Sea before the IDF boarded the boat.

In an article published in The Independent on Tuesday, Scarlet Westbrook, a climate activist who calls Thunberg her friend, claimed the IDF forced the crew to throw their phones into the sea, which she connected to the IDF jamming the boat’s communication systems. The same claim was also published by Al Jazeera in an article about the incident.

In the footage published by the New York Post, however, it appears the instruction to throw the phones into the sea came from someone in the crew, who shouted ”ditch the phones, ditch the phones,” an instruction several appeared to follow. Shortly after, one crew member asked another member to give him his phone, which he threw into the sea behind him.

Another crew member also gave the phone-thrower a laptop, which he threw the same way. The thrown computer contradicts claims that the phones were thrown on IDF orders to prevent the boat’s crew from communicating with the outside world.

During the sequence, only people who appeared to be crew members were visible in the footage, who seemed to be awaiting the Israeli boarding. No person who could have been an Israeli soldier was visible in the footage when the phones and computer were thrown into the sea.

The vessel Madleen was previously called Barcarole and changed its name to honor Gaza’s first female fisher, Madleen Culab. On the website Marinetraffic, which tracks and monitors registered vessels, it is still registered under its original name and listed as registered in the United Kingdom.

This means the boat is considered British territory and that crew and passengers fall under British law, under which littering is an offense that can carry fines of up to £2,500, equivalent to just over $3,000, according to the Environmental Protection Act that took effect in 1990.