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Gaza Flotilla Activists Allege Abuse And Humiliation While Being Detained In Israel

ROME (AP) – Some activists detained while trying to reach Gaza by sea returned to their own countries to describe the abuse and humiliation in the hands of the Israeli guards.

Approximately 450 activists were arrested for capturing Israeli forces. Global Sumud FlotillaIt is a fleet of 42 boats who want to break Israel’s Gaza Naval Blockade and to offer a symbolic amount of help to the region withdrawn from famine. Those detained between Wednesday and Friday were brought to Israel, where many of them stayed in prison.

The Italian journalist Saverio Tommasi said that Israeli soldiers hide drugs and treat their prisoners like “monkeys”.

“This is called torture. This is called torture, the rejection of human rights, even the most basic ones,” he said late on Saturday when he returned to the Fiumicino airport of Rome.

“They took everyone’s medicine: heart disease, asthma, even a 86 -year -old man… They took their inhaler.”

Swedish activist among those detained Greta ThunbergNelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla Mandela And a few European deputies.

Tommasi said Thunberg was chosen by Israeli forces after being arrested.

“We also saw Greta Thunberg in the harbor, in which case a flag of Israel is tied and a flag of Israel, just ridiculed,” he said. “Let’s say that it was a part of the oral and psychological violence they have always performed in order to destroy, ridicule and laugh when there was nothing to laugh and laugh.”

This image combination, published by the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the Israeli Navy’s global Sumud Flotilla, which has aid to Gaza, is October 1, 2025.

US President Donald Trump understood that the broker, the fleet was suspected. Fresh Peace Initiative In Gaza, including a ceasefire proposed for ordering Israel to stop bombing Gaza.

Another Italian journalist Lorenzo D’Agostino said the prisoners had woke up again and over again for two nights behind the railings. They were also frightened by dogs and soldiers who showed the laser views of their weapons to “scare us”.

After landing on Saturday, 137 activists from 13 countries came to Istanbul Airport, where he came from Israel, he said, “I felt in general, I felt that I was held by a terrorist organization.”

D’Agostino added that his belongings and his money were “stolen by the Israelites”.

Activist Paolo de Montis announced that he had guaranteed his hands with zipper vineyards and clogged on a prison minibus for hours.

“Continuous stress and humiliation,” he said. “You were not allowed to look at them, he always had to hold his head down, and when I looked, a man came… He shook me and slapped me behind his head.”

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said that staff “proud” in Ketziot prison, a facility in the Negev desert.

“I am proud to have ‘life activists’ as supporters of terrorism. Everyone who supports terrorism is a terrorist and deserves terrorist conditions.”

“If anybody came here and thought that they would receive a red carpet and trumpet – they were wrong. They should have a good idea for the conditions in Ketziot prison and think twice without approaching Israel again.”

Meanwhile, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said that the allegations of ill -treatment are “brazen lies”.

In a statement on social media, the ministry’s legal rights of all detainees are “fully supported”, Thunberg’s “does not complain about ridiculous and unfounded claims” added.

The arrests led to criticism of many governments, including Türkiye, Colombia and Pakistan. Greece, which has 27 citizens in Israeli custody, issued a “strong written protest ında about Israel’s“ unacceptable and inappropriate behavior of an Israeli minister ”.

The complaint is thought to refer to the images. Ben-Gvir revives activists To support “terrorism ve and to mockery the aid attempts after it was landed on the southern port of Ashdod on Friday.

The Swedish Foreign Ministry said that “the Swedes who were detained were acted intensively to ensure the observation of the rights of the Swedes”.

The fleet’s intervention is also large -scale Demonstrations in cities in the world.

Wilks reported from Istanbul. Associated Press writers Natalie Melzer Tel Aviv, Elena Becatoros in Israel, Athens and Greece, Stefanie Dazio in Berlin and Khalil Hamra in Istanbul contributed.