The Israel Government intends to treat all participants in the that plans to resume your navigation this Monday. It is, at least, the intention of the Israeli Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, who presented this Sunday to the president, Benjamin Netanyahu, his plan to stop the greatest attempt to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza since its implementation in 2007. As reported Israel will consider the flotilla “as an attempt to undermine the sovereignty of the country and support Hamas in Gaza.”
The plan proposed by Ben-Gvir establishes that all activists who are arrested by Israel will be sent to Ketziot and Damon prisons, prisons for terrorists. Unlike previous cases, as happened with the floats of the handala or the Madleen, Israel will not deport the embarked persons, but will keep them in “Prolonged detention”. “We will not allow those who support terrorism to live comfortably. They will assume all the consequences of their actions,” the minister has threatened.
In addition, Ben-Gvir has threatened to confiscate all the ships that participate in the flotilla, more than 40, as happened on previous occasions despite the fact that these ships sailed through international waters. The Israel government intends not only to keep the ships but also reuse them for the army. “They will face a firm and inflexible response from Israel”the Israeli representative has emphasized.
In the flotilla they travel, in addition to activists such as Greta Thunberg, the former mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau; the councilor of ERC in Barcelona Jordi Coronas; or the deputy of the CUP in the Catalan Parliament Pilar Castillejo.
The flotilla will leave Barcelona on Monday
This Monday, the first ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla After performing sea tests “due to hazardous maritime conditions” Because of a storm, they reported in a statement. “Before winds of more than 30 knots and the unpredictability of the Mediterranean, we make this decision to prioritize the safety and well -being of all participants and guarantee the success of our mission,” they said.
The ship group planned to join many others on September 4 in Tunisia, from where they will seek to reach Gaza with humanitarian aid. After the frustrated attempts of the Fleets of La Libertad Madleen or El Handala, both ships intercepted in international waters by the Israeli army, This time the Global Sumud Flotilla will gather more than 40 ships with civil crew from more than 40 countries. Despite being forced to return due to bad weather conditions, this morning the captains of the ships gather to establish the new game.
The attempts to get to Gaza through the Mediterranean date back to 2008, when for the first time two fishing ships with humanitarian aid, the Liberty and the Free Gaza, were able to dock in the strip After in 2007 Israel, but also Egypt, block access to Gaza by land, sea and air.
From that successful rupture of the naval block, only four more trips had the same result. None more. Israel did not allow any other ship to reach the strip. In 2010, the Israeli army assaulted the Fleeta de la Libertad and murdered a dozen activists from the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara. Fifteen years later, the Benjamin Netanyahu government continues with the sending of elite teams of the Israeli military forces to prevent the arrival of more ships. The last attempts were those of the Conscience ships in May, the MADLEEN in June and the Handala in July. While the first was Attacked by drones, Israel assaulted the last two, arrested its crew and deported them.
