Israel intercepts aid flotilla but one ship reported to have escaped blockade | Israel
Israel said that after the navy seized most of the ships, he stopped a pro -Palestinian fleet with help to reach Gaza.
However, Mikeno, a boat, was reported to have escaped from the sea blockade and stood in Palestinian earth waters on the shores of Gaza before contact with the ship.
For the first time since Israel implemented a maritime blockade on the waters of Gaza in 2009, an unauthorized human mission is closer to 70 maritime miles from the region.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed that ” provocation is a remote boat remotely ‘.
“ “ Approaching, “he added,” an active battle zone and the attempt to break the blockade will be prevented. “
Ships from the global Sumud fleet consisting of more than 40 civilian boats carrying approximately 500 parliamentary, lawyers and activists, including Swedish climate campaign Greta Thunberg, boarded by Israel forces on the shores of Gaza on Wednesday, 75 miles away.
A video from the Israeli Foreign Ministry showed that Thunberg was sitting on a deck surrounded by soldiers in the Fleet Chief Ship Alma.
“My name is Greta Thunberg. I am on the buying ship. We are about to be captured by Israel.” He said.
Thunberg and other activists were arrested and detained at the port of Ashdod in Israel.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it would deport all activists in the fleet.
The Fleet revealed several videos in the telegram with messages from individuals from various boats, some of them showed a few videos that hold their passports against their will to Israel and reiterate that their duties were a non -violent humanitarian reason.
The ships set sail in the international waters in the north of Egypt, when the interventions began and entered into those who were described as “high -risk zone”.
While still in international waters, the Israeli Navy has stopped other boats trying to break the blockade in the past and warned that the fleet does not pass.
Activists on social media, around 19.25, approximately 20 Israeli sea ships approached the fleet and ordered boats to close their engines. Live images from Flotilya, passengers sitting in the semi -circle, waiting for the intervention showed that wearing a life jacket. The broadcast was cut soon.
A message on Fleet’s Instagram page Wednesday evening, “Our ships are illegally captured,” he said. “The cameras were actively working to verify the security and status of all participants on board.”
Images published by Sky Italia showed that the activists on the deck were shot by strong water jets. On the ship, they said they felt an explosion loud near a few boats that were believed to fall from the drones.
Among those arrested, Sinn Féin Senator Chris Andrews includes at least two Italian deputies and nine Irish citizens, including French Mep Emma Fourreau.
In response to the raid, spontaneous protests began in Italy. In Brussel, Athens, Buenos Aires and Berlin, protests were reported, while the Spanish government called on Israel to protect the security and rights of activists.
The Spanish Labor Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz described the fleet attack as a “a crime against international law ve and asked Israel to immediately release the detained people. Bluesky“The EU currently needs to overcome relations with Israel.”
The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs made a statement late on Wednesday night and said that the fleet was a “peaceful and humanitarian civil society initiative ve and that the Spanish citizens in the fleet wanted“ physical integrity and rights ”to be respected. “Spain will continue to demand the war in Gaza, the great entrance of humanitarian aid, the release of all Israeli hostages and the implementation of the two -state solution: Palestine and Israel live side by side in peace and security.”
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Thursday that the British government was “very worried about Israel’s intervention in the International Fleet of Gaza.
“We are very worried about the situation with Sumud Flotilla, we are in contact with their families,” he said. “The assistance carried by Flotilla should be delivered to humanitarian organizations on the ground to be delivered to Gaza safely.”
The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that Israel’s “attack” in the fleet is a “terrorist act” that endangers the lives of innocent civilians.
Marine blockage was implemented by Israel in 2009, which is intensifying the 2007 Gaza blockade in response to Hamas’s control of the region. It has been condemned many times by the UN many times called “International Human Rights and Human Law directly contrary to.
Yuval Shany, an international law expert at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said that Israel’s blockade of the Gaza blockade was “military right – – to keep the weapons away – and a ship aiming to break the siege, said Israel could block the ship after the previous warning.
Whether the blockade is military right and legality is the points of discussion.
The fleet argues that it is a civilian, unarmed group and that the passage of humanitarian aid is guaranteed in international law. Activists’ attempts to break the sea blockade in Gaza were forcibly stopped by the Israeli army.
In 2010, 10 Turkish activists were killed by Israeli commandos raided the Mavi Marmara ship while led a fleet of aid towards Gaza.
