«Several boats of the Hamas-Sumud Flottiglia have already been stopped and their passengers have been transferred to an Israeli port. Greta and her friends are healthy and safe, “reads the Israeli diplomacy account, which shares a movie in which you can see a military military bottle of water from the Swedish activist. The members of the Global Sumud Flotilla, on the other hand, on social networks show the use of hydrants against boats and the X account of the mission speaks of “incessant attacks of the Israeli Navy”. The misunderstanding of the Florida ship also reported. The Flotilla’s online ‘tracker’, which monitors the movements of the boats in real time, at the moment makes it known that there are fourteen those already intercepted, while the remaining “continue navigation towards Gaza”. Saif Abukeshek, spokesman for the GSF, in a video on Instagram communicates the first numbers regarding the arrests made by Israel: 201 people stops from 37 countries, including 30 participants from Spain, 22 from Italy, 21 from Turkey and 12 from Malaysia. There is no shortage of the first international reactions. If the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and that of the European Council Antonio Costa do not comment on hotly, the president of Colombia Gustavo Petro announces the withdrawal of the entire Israeli diplomatic delegation from the South American country. Several governments express themselves against Israel’s action. Turkey defines the intervention as “a terrorist act”. Pakistan and Malaysia also against Tel Aviv. The Irish Foreign Minister Simon Harris, on social networks, judges the interception of the Flotilla “very worrying”. “They will all have to wait 2-3 days because being the Yom Kippur party, which is the most important Jewish festival, until tomorrow evening nothing will be done. No practice will be deforestable, so they will wait in a center, probably in the port of Ashdod”, the Minister of Foreign Acka – A few hours after the start of the operation -, about the fate that could wait for the Italian activists who participated in the mission, specifying, compared to the parliamentarians who were on board, “we still do not know where they are, in the late morning we will know everything”. Risks », defining Israeli abroad as a” block “rather than as an” attack “.
The alt imposed by the Israeli Navy
«You are entering an active war zone. If you try to force the naval block, we will block and confiscure your boats and you will be considered fully responsible for your actions ». The alt of the Israeli Navy, through the voice of a military, arrives at the crew of the Global Sumud Flotilla around 19 and 30 Italian time. After the ‘warnings’ of Wednesday night and a day in which activists expected an intervention by Israel at any moment, the first interceptions materialize when the mission is about 70 miles from the Gaza coast. The first ship to be ‘affordable’ is the Alma, the head boat of the expedition on which there was, among others, Greta Thunberg. From the live streaming of the Flotilla boats you can see the seated activists, with the rescue jackets wearing, pending the Israeli military. Then communications are stopped with the head of the head. After a few hours, there is confirmation from the Israel Foreign Ministry.
The arrests
“The spokesman for Global Sumud Flotilla, Saif Abukeshek, provided an” update on the mission “in a post on Instagram, confirming that Israeli forces intercepted 13 boats at sea, brings back to Jazeera.
Abukeshek said that there were more than 201 people from those boats from 37 countries, including 30 participants from Spain, 22 from Italy, 21 from Türkiye and 12 from Malaysia. He said that the “group of the group continues” despite the arrests and that the boats continue to navigate “in the Mediterranean to break the siege of Gaza”. «We have about 30 ships that are still fighting to get away from the military ships of the employment forces and try to reach the coasts of Gaza. They are determined. They are motivated and are doing everything possible to break this (siege) within the early hours of the morning and arrive together », he explained