Gaza flotilla members allege beatings and insults in Israeli detention | Israel

As a part of a human fleet, international activists, journalists and lawyers who were deported from Israel after trying to violate Gaza’s 16 -year marine blockade claimed that they were subjected to brutal physical and verbal harassment by the Israeli forces during their arrest.

The alleged abuse was made to follow the images of Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023, to have sleep and drug deprivation, beating, automatic rifles, to sleep on the ground, to be insulted on the ground, to be exposed to insults on the ground, and to watch Israel on 7 October 2023.

An Italian journalist Saverio Tommal said, üm I was beaten from the moment we entered the harbor to the end ”. “I blow my back, blows my head – and they [the Israeli soldiers] He laughed, laughed at all of them. Anyone who could not keep their eyes below was punished with a stroke on his head. “

The Israeli forces seized all the boats of the global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) and carried more than 400 people, including parliamentarians and environmental campaignists Greta Thunberg last week. Most people were used to detain Palestinians who were accused of participation in terrorist activities in Ketziot, a high -security prison in the Negev desert.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry rejected the allegations of ill -treatment to fleet members as “brazen lies, and sent it to X:“ All detainees have been fully approved ”.

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that personnel “proud ıyla in Ketziot’s behavior. “They should have a good idea for the conditions in Ketziot prison and think twice before approaching Israel again.”

Rafael Borrego, a Spanish activist and lawyer, said to Reuters: ık We have always been ready to attack us with guns, as in mine, as in mine, seven or more armed people, as a police officer.

Australia and New Zealand The Movement Branch to Gaza, which is part of the Fleet of the Global Movement, reported that the Australian Foreign and Trade Ministry (DFAT) reported that a participant was attacked during the intervention of a participant, and received injuries in his shoulder and ribs.

He said that DFAT was later attacked, slapped in his face, slapped, mocked and exploited verbally, rejected clean water, and kept awake while the guards were shouting during the night.

Barcelona’s leftist Mayor Ada Colau, when he returned to Spain on Sunday night, his cell’s prison garden was decorated with a great photograph of a bombed Gaza, and in Arabic, “Welcome to the New Gaza” was decorated with a title.

He said that the prison shows that the prison was the prison of a fascist state .. “When we wanted a doctor, we were told that it was for people,” he said.

Lorenzo D’Agostino, an Italian journalist, said Guardian members who urgently needed drugs. “The Israelis ignored them,” he said. “When we all protested, they wore rebellion equipment, put the dogs on us and targeted the laser views of their automatic rifles in our heads.”

“When they took us out of our shirts and Palestinian symbols like Keffiyeh, they forcibly stigmatized them.”

D’IGostino and several other members of the Fleet said that Israeli forces chose Thunberg for hard treatment than others. D ‘I saw that with my own eyes, with my own eyes, the soldiers took a selfie with him. Greta is a strong and brave woman, but he was deeply shaken during his detention.

A E -Posta sent by the Swedish Foreign Ministry and seen by Guardian, confirmed that the activist was forced to “hold a flag ve and was taken into custody in a cell invaded with a little food and water”.

In a statement of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Thunberg said that he did not complain about any of these ridiculous and unfounded claims to the Israeli officials ”.

The campaignist came to Greece on Monday, said that Israel was deported between 171 people. Speaking to the media, he said: “Let’s be very clear; there is a genocide in front of our eyes, a lively flowing genocide on all our phones.”

The deportation of Monday brought the total number of deported from 479 to 341 detained.

Twenty-seven Greek citizens, including the leftist deputy Peti Pesi, returned home on Monday after the Athens Foreign Ministry announced that Southern Israel would send a plane rented to Eilat-Ramon International Airport.

On the hesitation of criticizing Israel, Greece’s central -right government faced criticism of the relatives of the activists who accused the opposition parties and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of giving priority to the “strategic alliance ın of the two countries.

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs made a “strong written protest ği that he called Israel to complete the necessary procedures immediately on Friday. [of repatriation] And respect for the rights of the relevant citizens ”, but the opponents said that it was published only after the official indifference complaints by the relatives of the activists.

The ministry, who stopped naming Ben-Gvir, who mocked the activists when they landed, criticized the unacceptable and inappropriate behaviors of an Israeli Minister for Greek citizens ”.

Meanwhile, a new fleet that sails from Türkiye is moving towards Gaza and far from about 200 nautical miles from the region. In a ferry converted into a floating hospital, it carries about 250 people, including doctors, nurses and journalists.