Israel confirms that flotilla activists are being taken to the country
The passengers of the 19 ships of the Global Sumud flotilla intercepted last night and at dawn by the Israeli navy, including the Captain Nikoswhere a journalist from El País was traveling, they are already being taken to Israel, where the deportation procedure to Europe will begin, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Thursday.
In the same ironic tone that he used on Wednesday to talk about the activists who were traveling in the around 40 ships of the flotilla, the message refers to these vessels such as “Yates” and calls the initiative, which transported humanitarian aid to Gaza to break the Israeli block, such as the “Hamás-Sumud” flotilla. In the previous days, Israel has tried to link to the organization of the Global Sumud with the Palestinian militia, but without offering any evidence of it.
“Hamas-Sumud passengers in their yachts are directed safely and peacefully to Israel, where deportation procedures will begin to Europe. Passengers are healthy and wild,” says the tweet.
The Marina Plan, whose steps collected the Israeli media on Wednesday, is to transfer the members of the flotilla in ships and disembark them in Israel. There they will be sent to Ketziot prison – in the Neguev desert, near the city of Beer Sheva – and subsequently deported to their respective countries. Those who reject the expulsion (which also entails a prohibition of the country) will remain in the hands of personnel from the Ministry of Interior, led by the ultra -rightist Itamar Ben Gvir. According to Channel 12 of the National Television, a special court will be formed in the prison itself. The Army, on the other hand, will tow some vessels to the coast of Israel, but it is proposed to sink others into the Mediterranean.
