The Sumud Flotilla, which transports humanitarian aid to Gaza, has confirmed this morning that Among the volunteers aboard the 20 vessels intercepted by Israel are 30 Spanish people.
In a video broadcast on the social networks of the organization, a spokesman has detailed that, in addition, They travel in these vessels 22 Italian people, 21 Turks, 12 from Malaysia, 11 of Tunisia, 11 from Brazil and ten of France.
Nine people from Ireland, eight from Algeria, seven from the United States, seven from Germany, six from the United Kingdom, four from Norway, four from Sweden, and three from Morocco, Jordan, Poland, Mexico and Portugal are also between the United States, Poland, Mexico and Portugal.
In addition, there are two citizens of Kuwait, Colombia and Switzerland respectively and one from the Czech Republic, Mauritania, Austria, Bulgaria, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Bahréin, Netherlands, Finland, South Africa and Slovakia, reports Efe.
In another video, the Global Flotilla Sumud has ensured not having information about the nearly 200 crew of the ships retained by Israel.
However, the Israel Foreign Ministry has published a video of the arrest of Greta Thunberg after being intercepted its ship.
The flotilla has reported that thirty of their ships continue to sail towards Gaza and that are 46 nautical miles from the enclave coast (about 85 kilometers).
“30 ships still navigate strongly on their route to Gaza, only 46 nautical miles, despite the incessant aggressions of the Navy of the Israeli occupation,” the flotilla has published on his Instagram account, where he has encrypted intercepted vessels: ‘Morgana’, ‘Otaria’, ‘Seulle’, ‘Specter’, ‘Yular’ and ‘Sirius’, the latter in which the former mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau has traveled.
Previously, the organization had announced that “the Israeli naval forces have illegally intercepted and approached the ‘Aurora’ ship (…) along with other ships in international waters”, while confirmed by the cut of live and communications broadcasts and denounced the use of “water cannons by Israel’s army against some of its vessels,” EP reports.
The flotilla has warned that “the state of the participants and the crew is still unconfirmed”, crossing the Israeli intervention of “illegal attack against unarmed humanitians” and calling international governments and institutions to “demand their immediate safety and liberation.”
Hours before, Colau has published a video previously recorded by the activists in which, in anticipation of being arrested and transferred to the port of Apodod, they have denounced the actions of the Israel army.
Colau’s video about his arrest
“Hello, I’m Ada Colau de Barcelona. I speak to you from the ‘Sirius’, boat of the Global Sumud Flotilla. If you are watching this video it is because Israel has illegally stopped us. That means we don’t have access to the phone or the Internet. That we are absolutely incommunicado, “said the former mayor. In addition to Colau, among the Spaniards who manned the intercepted ships so far is the political scientist and journalist Néstor Prieto, who has also spread, through her account in the social network X, a video similar to that of the ex -regidor in forecast of the Israeli intervention.
I ask you to deposit all the pressure in the Spanish government to guarantee respect for my rights and the rest of the members of the flotilla, “he said. For its part, the portal deciphering the war, which Prieto is a collaborator, has denounced his arrest” while “reporting from the GSF, in a” special coverage “centered in the Israeli block of the Palestinian enclave “Attack against freedom of the press.”
Thus, he has warned that The interception of the flotilla violates “its right to navigate by waters that are not under Israeli sovereignty“And he has demanded that the authorities of this country” his immediate liberation. “On the other hand, he has urged the Spanish and European authorities to” act urgently and firmly “in this regard and to guarantee the security of Néstor and the rest of the journalists and activists arrested by the Israeli forces. He also recalled that Spain, along with 16 other countries, warned that he would persecute the” accountability ” violation of international law and human rights of participants in the flotilla.
For its part, the Israeli Foreign Ministry has defended through X the “safe” arrest of several vessels. “His passengers are being transferred to an Israeli port,” said Israeli diplomacy, which has added that “Greta (Thunberg) and his friends are healthy and saved“
The multiple interventions of the Israel Army have occurred after a radio warning in which they asked the members of the vessels that changed the course of their navigation were launched. “They approach a blocking area. If you want to deliver help to Gaza, they can do it through the established channels,” he warned in a radio message broadcast from the distance.
Deportation
Some 600 police have participated in the participants’ transfer work, according to the state radio Kan. From the port of Ashdod they will be transferred to a center in southern Israel during Yom Kipur, and those who want to be deported will be sent to their respective countries tonight, when the holiday ends.
Those who refuse to the repatriation will be prosecuted by personnel of the Ministry of Interior through a special court that will be formed in the Ketziot prison, as happened in the last flotilla in which the well -known Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg also participated.