The Israeli army intercepted the last ship of the Global Sumud flotilla, an international mission that sought to break the Maritime block over Gaza To deliver humanitarian aid in the enclave that continues at war. The tension grows in the Middle East, after most activists aboard boats – about 450 people – were delayed by security forces.
The intercepted ship this Friday is the Marinette, which had to stop its march at 79 km from Gaza before the presence of the Israelis forces. From the Netanyahu Benjamín Government They reported that the Navy had taken control of the last ship of the flotilla, arrested to its occupants and that the ship was being taken to the port of Ashdod in Israel.
Gaza Strip: Israel’s forces intercepted the last ship of the humanitarian flotilla
From the Global Sumud flotilla they reported that the Israeli naval forces had “illegally intercepted our 42 ships, each of which transported humanitarian aid, volunteers and The determination to break Israel’s illegal siege to Gaza“
A camera aboard the Marinette showed a crew that held a note with the message “We see a ship! It is a warship.” Subsequently in the registry it can be seen as soldiers intercept the boat and require passengers not to move and lift their hands.
The situation of the flotilla generated an international stir, due to the tension that was generated between civilians and the Israel government. The activists sailed two months ago, in August, in what their Last attempt by activists to challenge Israel’s naval block to enclave, Almost two years after Israel’s siege to Gaza.
For their part, from the beginning, the Israel authorities denounced that the mission is a “fraudulent maneuver” and from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned that the boat approached a Active combat zone and violated a “legal naval block.”
Product of the conflict, Israel’s authorities announced The deportation of four Italians. “The rest is in deportation process. Israel is willing to finish this procedure as soon as possible, “they said.
Hamas described the Israeli interception of the humanitarian flotilla as “maritime piracy and terrorism”
He Hamas Palestinian Movement repudiated the operation launched by the Israeli Marina against the Sumud Global Fleetwhich transported humanitarian aid for Gaza. The organization defined the operation as a act of “piracy” and “maritime terrorism.”
In a statement released through the Diario Fistín, close to the group, the group that maintains control over the enclave denounced that the capture of activists and journalists in international waters constitutes a “Traicitorium attack” and a crime against the civilian population.
Hamas said this type of Interventions “add up to the history of crimes of the occupation” and described what happened as a direct aggression against international volunteers who tried to take assistance to the population Palestine “besieged”, submitted – according to his words – to “systematic genocide and famine for two years.” The group also highlighted the “courage” of the members of the mission who sought to break the blockade on the strip.
In parallel, The organization called the UN and the international community to guarantee the safety of activists and asked the civil society from different countries to mobilize with marches and strikes to “denounce the attack and demand its immediate cessation.”
According to the organizers themselves, so far the Israeli army intercepted several vessels, including the soul, Adara and Sirius, aboard from which Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, Brazilian Thiago de Avila, the former mayor of Barcelona Ada Colau and more than ten Spanish citizens traveled. The detainees would be transferred to the port of ApDod.
Source: Ambito
