The legal team of the Sumud Global Flotilla in Israel, Adalah, reported this Thursday that all of the detained activists (around 430) have now left the Israeli prison in which they were located and have begun their deportation process, according to what the Israeli Penitentiary Service informed the lawyers. In a statement collected by the Efe agency, Adalah explains that the majority of the activists are being transferred to the Ramon airport, in the extreme south of Israel and close to the Ketziot prison, where they were held. Adalah sources have indicated that there are activists from countries such as Jordan or Egypt who could leave the country by land.
The organization has also reported that while all participants in the international flotilla are currently awaiting deportation by the Israeli authorities, a court hearing is being held in the Ashkelon Court of First Instance against activist Zohar Regev, who has Israeli citizenship. “Israeli authorities are holding her under unfounded and contradictory accusations of ‘illegal entry into Israel’, ‘illegal stay’ and attempts to break the blockade of Gaza,” Adalah said.
A few hours earlier, the Spanish Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, reported that the 44 Spaniards traveling aboard the , detained by Israel in waters near Cyprus at the beginning of the week, were being “already transferred to an airport, with the rest of the activists.” “Everything indicates that they will be deported via Turkey at 2:00 p.m. It is not officially confirmed, but it is what is being discussed among the consuls,” Albares said this morning on television.
The head of Foreign Affairs put the number of nationals detained at 44, although he warns that this number is the result of an account from his ministry and is not yet the official data. “We are peaceful, and the only thing we want is for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza,” Albares stressed. “Where is it?” he asked.
This happens after images were released on Wednesday in which the Israeli Minister of National Security, the ultra Itamar Ben Gvir, appears humiliating the members of the flotilla after their arrival that same day in Israel. You see them. Consequently, the Foreign Minister announced that he had summoned, for the second time in 48 hours, Israel’s Charge d’Affaires in Madrid, Dana Rerlich, to protest and demand the immediate release of the detainees.
“No Spanish citizen is touched,” Albares warned Israel this Thursday, after recalling that the Spaniards were detained “illegally” and after also referring to the video published on Wednesday as “hateful, inhuman, monstrous.” “We are going to defend them against any slander that links them to terrorist groups: they are peaceful citizens,” he assured.
Return via Türkiye
The Turkish Foreign Ministry has also reported that it has sent three planes from the public company Turkish Airlines to the Israeli Ramon airport to evacuate the flotilla crew captured by Israel on the high seas. The flights are scheduled to arrive at Istanbul International Airport around six in the afternoon, reports Andres Mourenza.
The head of Turkish diplomacy, Hakan Fidan, has explained on the social network
