The 14 activists who continue to be detained after being intercepted by the Israeli army when they were on board, have testified on Monday and several of them have claimed to have been subjected to “physical and verbal violence” before the Court of the Immigration Authority of Israel in the framework of the hearings against the crew of the Fleeting Freedom that sought to break the blockade on the strip of Gaza.
“Several of them have testified to have been subjected to, and others have denounced ill-treatment and poor detention conditions,” the legal team of the Arab-Israeli organization of human rights defense Adalah, which has added that “all continue on an indefinite hunger strike to protest their illegal detention.”
During the hearings, concluded this afternoon, the activists have affirmed that “their humanitarian mission was motivated by the need to act against the illegal block imposed by Israel to the Gaza Strip and against the ongoing genocide”, also pointing out “the extermination war fought by Israel for more than 22 months and an unprecedented famine that has caused the death of dozens of children and threatens the life of hundreds of civilians In the strip. “
The Adalah Group has reiterated in this way that it continues to represent the detainees in an “unwavering commitment to defend their rights and their right to carry out the humanitarian work for which they have come.” Twelve of them, including the Spaniards and Santiago González Vallejo, have rejected a fast -track deportation.
This same Monday, the Israel business manager in Spain, Dan AZ, has been summoned on Monday in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in protest of the arrest of the two Spanish activists. Sources of the department he directs have informed Europa Press of this new call for the highest Israeli representative in Spain in order to send the government’s protest for the arrest of Santiago González Vallejo and Sergio Toribio and “demand their immediate liberation.”
The La Libertad Flotilla ship was approached on Saturday when it was approximately less than 100 kilometers from the coast of Gaza to break the Israeli maritime block over the enclave with 21 crew on board.
