The one that the activists of the Fleeta de la Libertad, who were aboard the Mased To carry through maritime, it helps Gaza, have been transferred to Ben Gurion airport, near Tel Aviv, and have begun to be returned to their countries. Several of them, for which there were flights available, are already flying. The Spanish Sergio Toribio will arrive in Barcelona on the morning of this Tuesday.
The sailboat in which 11 volunteers were traveling, was intercepted by the Israeli forces in international waters, as denounced, in the early hours of Monday. The ship was less than 300 kilometers from the Gazatí coast at the time the signal of its location was lost.
After his arrest, (time of peninsular Spain, one less in Gaza). In the following hours, activists have been held in a detention center of the Ben Gurion International Airport, “where they have appeared before a court before their deportation to their countries of origin,” confirmed a spokeswoman for the coalition of the Freedom Flotilla.
According to the Israeli government statement in X, “the consuls of the countries of origin of the passengers received them at the airport.” Also a team from the Legal Center for the Rights of Arab minorities in Israel (Adalah) has managed to meet with activists.
“Greta [Thunberg] And his flotilla companions were taken to a room upon arrival for the projection of the horror film of the massacre of October 7, and when they saw what it was, they refused to continue seeing it, ”Katz said in a statement collected by the Israeli media The Times of Israel.
Defense Minister Israel Katz had ordered his troops to “show passengers the video of the horrors of the massacre of October 7 when they arrive at the port of Ashdod” because, as he justified, “it is appropriate that the anti -Semitic Greta and her companions supporters of Hamas see exactly who is the terrorist organization to which they came to support and for whom they work.”
The ship Mased, With the so -called Fleeta de la Libertad on board, it was aimed at bringing a small cargo of help – art and formula milk for babies, mainly – which sought to symbolize the blockage and despair that the Gaza strip lives.
Israel hinders the entry of humanitarian aid to the strip. On March 2, the Benjamín Netanyahu government imposed a total blockade that lasted more than 80 days. The crisis of hunger and shortage that triggered was so serious, with the entire population of the territory (2.1 million people, almost half, children), that the Israeli authorities opened the door at the entrance of a limited number of supplies. About 100 trucks access the strip with goods, but it would be necessary to enter about 500 or 600, according to the UN, to meet the basic needs of the Gazatis.
