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The activist and former mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau (C), with the coordinator of the Left Bloc (BE), Mariana Mortágua (D) on her way to one of the flotilla ships before the match in Barcelona.
Ministry of Internal Security wants to harden the penalties for actions of this genre, making an example of the flotilla in which follows the leader of the Left Bloc, Mariana Mortágua, on the way to Gaza since this Monday.
The Israeli government prepares for a tougher response against the new humanitarian mission of the Global Sumud flotilha, which set out late on Monday afternoon in Barcelona to the Gaza track after the trip was due to strong winds.
According to the newspaper, the executive led by Benjamin Netanyahu plans to treat the crew – including the coordinator of the Left Bloc, Mariana Mortáguathe activist Miguel Duarte, the actress Sofia Aparício And the young activist Greta Thunberg– How “Terrorists”and confiscate the vessels to be used by the Israeli police.
The proposal will have come from the Minister of Internal Security, Itamar Ben-Realfar right, which will have defended before Netanyahu the detention of activists in prisons typically reserved for people accused of terrorism. Men would be sent to Ktzi’ot and women to Damon, high -security prison establishments, where they would not have access to “television, radio and high quality food.”
The proposed plan also provides for the seizure of more than 50 Flotilha boats, which would be integrated into a new maritime force of the Israeli police. The conviction is that a more rigid posture will discourage future similar initiatives to break the Israelite blockade imposed on Gaza.
This is the fourth flotilla with this year’s Gaza. The previous three did not fulfill the goal of bringing help to the enclave after being intercepted by the Israelite forces. The Israeli government maintains that the arrival of these boats to waters considered “restricted military areas” equals a violation of national security. It is recalled, however, that the latest approaches to Israel to stop the Global Sumud Flotilla flotillas were made in international waterseven being considered “a form of piracy“By Iran and a” hateful attack “for Türkiye.
Still, the Portuguese government as it will not protect the vessels in which Mortágua and company travel.
“It’s something that seems unusual to me”the Minister of Foreign Minister said this Saturday Paulo Rangelclarifying that the Portuguese State “has nothing to protect or follow” the humanitarian flotilla that will try to bring humanitarian support to the Gaza Strip.
