A total of 473 crew members of the Global Sumud Flotilla arrested by Israeli authorities for navigating to Gaza to take help to the Palestinian strip were transferred to prison De Saharonim, in the Desert of the Neguev, in southern Israel.
As reported to Efe Loubna Tuma, Adalah’s lawyer, the legal team of the Flotilla, this is the number of passengers in the ships intercepted by Israel conducted to the prison, from where predictably They will be deported to their countries. The lawyer has failed to detail how many of these people have agreed to be deported immediately and how many not, the two possibilities that the arrested have.
In the first case, they are taken to the airport to take a deportation flight and in the second a judicial procedure opens in which a judge would decide on their deportation, a process that requires more time.
As reported by the Italian Foreign Ministry, The Italian parliamentarians and Eurodiputados To take a regular flight to Rome. This is the MEPs of the Benedetta Scuderi Verdes Verdes Alianza, of the Democratic Party (PD) Annalisa Corrado, the Senator of the 5 Star Movement Marco Croatti and the deputy of the PD Arturo Scotto.
From Wednesday night and for twelve hours, the Israeli Navy approached one by one the more than 40 ships that made up the flotilla, which only continues to sail in the Mediterranean one, the Marinette, who follows her journey to Gaza.
The detainees were taken to the Israeli port of Ashdod, where they were Signed by the Police before being conducted before the border authorities for the migration procedures. Throughout the night, this procedure has been produced and most of those arrested have been transferred in a drip of bus from said port to Saharonim prison, in the town of Kziot, stuck to the border with Egypt.
As explained to Efe a Flotilla lawyer, this prison was conceived for immigrants in an irregular situation in Israel and has the capacity to house the hundreds of crew of the ships that tried to take help to Gaza.
