Adalah, a Palestinian organization that represents the fleet, has repeated that activists are part of “a civil mission” to break the Israeli block over Gaza and regards as “illegal” who are intercepted in international and detained waters.
The twelve passengers and activists of the intercepted freedom fleet boat This morning by Israel, in international waters, “have not yet been transferred to the country and stay in the sea,” said the legal group that represents them on Monday, AdalahAfter contact with the migration authorities.
“The immigration authority has confirmed that activists are currently not in custody. It seems that the authorities are planning to deport them on arrival. According to the authorities, who cannot be deported today, will probably appear before a hearing tomorrow,” the Adalah organization said in a statement.
Adalah, a Palestinian organization that represents this group, has repeated that activists on board the fleet, including the climate activist Greta Thumbergpart of “A civil mission” To break and consider the Israeli block over Gaza “Illegal” They are intercepted in international and detained waters.
“So far, Israel has provided insufficient information about the place of residence or his legal situation,” the group added.
For his part, the spokesperson for the Israeli government for international media, David MenceToday he insured in a video conference that the intercepted ship for Gaza is dragged to the Israeli port of Ashdod and that activists are being deported on board to their country of origin “very soon”.
The spokesperson has also treated ridicule the initiative By declaring that more than a fleet with humanitarian aid for Gaza and food: “It was a yacht for selfies. It was not humanitarian aid, it was Instagram activism.”
Mence who tries to justify Israel claim that allowing the arrival of the ship to Gaza “Opening the gates for terrorism, supported by Iran, for extremists from all over the world already pseudo activists looking for headlines about the legal block of Israel.”
Blocking since 2007
Israel imposed a total blockade of the access from basic goods to Gaza -Comida, water, medicines or fuel on March 2, just as it does, with which Hamas has appropriated them. It only left his entrance again, very limited, on May 19, but tens of thousands of Gazati are already suffering from hunger, according to the UN and other humanitarian groups.
Gaza suffers from a terrestrial, air and sea blockade due to Israel – because he also took over control of the crossing of Rafah border with Egypt – since 2007, when Hamas took over the power after he won elections a year earlier.
Source: EITB
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