Gaza flotilla intercepted by Israel on Yom Kippur amid dispute over aid cargo
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Israel said that the global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) carries plenty of activists, but did not help.
The fleet of 40 ships was captured on Thursday during the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry published a video showing that Israeli police spokesman Dean Elsdunne was one of the largest ships in the fleet and empty.
Elsdunne, passing through empty Flotilla, “We and many other countries offer them to bring this aid to Grazans – we can facilitate the safe arrival – safe arrival – they have rejected it and now rejected the reason and now we know: because it is never about bringing aid to Grazans, but everything was about to follow the headlines and social media follow -up.
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Anti -Israeli activists in the global Sumud fleet, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, were seized by the Israeli forces of the ship. (Israeli Foreign Ministry)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the intervention and said that the members of the Israeli navy did this “the most professional and efficient”. He also said that his actions prevented dozens of ships from entering a war zone.
GSF argues that their ships receive help, including baby formula, food and medicine. In response to the Fox News Digital Comment request, GSF said he would publish photos and videos for helping Instagram and Telegram.
The organization described the intervention of the fleet as “illegal” and claimed that the participants were “kidnapping” and not released.
“After the Israeli Occupation Navy, from 47 countries to Gaza, food, baby formula, medicine and volunteer, a peaceful, non-violent convoy seized illegal ships-hundreds of participants were kidnapped and MSC Johannesburg, MSC Johannesburg, MSC Johannesburg,” GSF said in a statement.
“It is a war crime to seize human ships in international waters, rejecting the legal adviser and concealing the fate of the compounds seized.”
Israeli navy troops set sail towards one of the civil fleet of Gaza, after being stopped as they approached the shores of Gaza, on Thursday, October 2, 2025 towards the port of Ashdod in Israel. (Leo Correa/AP Photo)
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However, Israel said that four Italian citizens detained from the fleet were deported when deported.
“Israel is willing to end this procedure as quickly as possible.” He said. “As the Latin Patriarchate of Israel, Italy, Greece and Jerusalem has repeatedly stated, any aid that these boats may have been moved may have been transferred to Gaza in a peaceful way. This was nothing more than a provocation.”
Since then, among the detainee fleet activists, Climate defender Greta Thunberg and Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandela Mandela.
Thunberg will not be deported from Israel for the first time. After participating in a separate fleets of Gaza, he was detained by Israeli officials in June and then sent back to Sweden on a flight via France.
At that time, he chose to be deported while other activists rejected. Thunberg said that in Israel, a law center for Arabic minority rights, Adalah and lawyers, “better outside Israel” and “harm” the reason for refusing to leave, said Israel Times reported. Adalah now represents GSF participants.
Greta Thunberg was detained when Israel took over the global Sumud fleet. (Working Paper)
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Brian Cox, an assistant professor at Cornell Law Faculty and a retired US army judge, returned to those who argue that the fleet’s intervention was illegal.
“International law offers very detailed rules regarding the interaction of ships trying to violate a sea blockade and the interaction of ships trying to violate a blockade.
In a thread on x, Cox returned against the old British diplomat Carig Murray, He claimed that Israel did not have judicial authority.
Cox, the fleet is not in the 12 sea miles of Israel, but in the open seas, it is not important, he said.
“Ships may be caught outside the neutral waters if they are trying to violate or violate a blockade,” Cox wrote, Referring to the San Remo guideline of the International Law Director, which applies to armed conflicts in the sea. He also rejected the idea that the blockade should be temporary and said that the guide was not a provision that requires a “short -term”.
In response, Murray pushed backThe guide is “that as a guide for traditional international law, as it did 30 years ago, but there is no more than that”.
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