A total of 473 crew of the detainees by the Israeli authorities for navigating to Gaza to take help to the Palestine strip were transferred to the Saharonim prison, in the Desert of the Neguev, in southern Israel.
As reported on Friday to Efe Loubna Tuma, lawyer of, the legal team of the flotilla, that is the number of passengers of the ships intercepted by Israel led to the prison, from where they will foreseeably 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.
The authorities of Israel, who have given few details of the state of the activists at this time, have affirmed this Friday that the retained ones have already gone through an “inspection process” after their transfer to the port of the city of ApDod, in the face of their future deportation. The Israeli police have indicated that activists have been sent before the population and migration authority and the Israel prison service in order to continue the process before their deportation, some activities in which more than 600 agents participate, as reported by the newspaper .
the Italian parliamentarians and Eurodiputos who were part of the flotilla were already transferred to Tel Aviv airport 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 12 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, he, 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.
