Israel has confirmed the Foreign Ministry that today will allow the exit of the rest of the Spaniards of the Global Sumud Flotilla arrested in international waters when they tried to get to Gaza. They will return throughout this Monday “if there are no last minute changes,” as announced by Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares, in an interview with Catalunya Ràdio. “That is the idea and that is what we already have officially confirmed with Israel, but we must wait for them to be sitting on the plane, and the plane in the air,” said the head of diplomacy.
In total they are 28 personaswho add to the first group of 21 citizens who returned this Sunday, including the former mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, the deputy of Compromís Juan Bordera or the Councilor for Republican Esquerra Jordi Coronas.
Several of the already returned have denounced bad treatment in the Israeli desert prison of the Negev desert where they were transferred: handcuffed hours, lack of food, water or medicines and degrading treatment. “Yesterday I could talk to some of them telephone and gave me details that obviously rejection and I don’t like them at all,” said Albares. “But as I say, I wait for all the members of the Israel flotilla to come out to be able to go into more details and I also want to keep talking to them today throughout the day.”
Possible complaint for ill -treatment
Part of Gaza Flotilla activists study a complaint for these abuse. This has been assured by the MEVs of the Communs and lawyer of the Flotilla, Jaume Asens, in an interview to be Catalonia collected by Europa Press. They will ask the Prosecutor’s Office to require the Israeli authorities all the documentation of the activists to confirm if, as some denounced, their signatures in the deportation sheet have been falsified.
The former mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau (Comuns), and the councilor of ERC in the City Council of Barcelona Jordi Coronas, say they received “abuse and denigrating treatment.” International Flotilla Members have corroborated those complaints. The former mayor has denounced vexatious situations and a hostile environment, and explained that, during her prison stay, the Israeli troops had hung an image of Gaza devastated by the attacks and bombings, accompanied by a sign that said: “Welcome to the new gaza. Israel.
“They have hit us, they have dragged us on the ground, they have tied us hands and foot, they have put us in cages, they have insulted us, they have prevented us from sleeping, they have denied us medical assistance,” said the journalist Néstor Prietomember of the flotilla, before the media. Activists have also denounced that They were not provided with drinking water or food During their prison stay and the medications were denied. “A soldier told us that they had no doctors for animals”, Said Prieto.
The ultra-rightist Itamar Ben-Gvir, Minister of National Security, walked through the prison where they were retained and made a video recorded with part of the half thousand detainees prostrated on the ground, with the head of the gacha, while he insulted them and assured that they collaborated with “Hamas’s terrorists.”
The Global Sumud Flotilla is an international humanitarian mission composed of 473 people from 50 countries that have traveled for a month in half a hundred ships of different sizes to Gaza to try to symbolically break the blockade of the humanitarian aid imposed by the Israel army. The ships were assaulted last Wednesday by strongly armed soldiers. Another new flotilla, the so -called Fleeta de la Libertad, is already heading towards Gaza to try to break the blockade with nine ships. The minister has assured that he does not know that Spanish travel in it; However, a deputy of more Madrid, Jimena González, already travels in the flotilla
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