Antonio Mazzeoactivist and journalist engaged in the Palestinian cause, returned to Italy with a scheduled flight from Tel Aviv, who arrived in Fiumicino. Moved, he was embraced, outside Terminal 3, by representatives of Assopacepalestine associations, Arci and a bridge for, Freedom Flotilla, by Arturo Scotto of the Democratic Party, by the president of the Observatory against the militarization of the school and universities, Roberta Leoni, and by the ex senator Giovanni Russo Spena.
Mazzeo, who was aboard the Handalaone of the boats of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, engaged in a humanitarian mission with the aim of reaching Gaza by sea, intercepted and seized in international waters, then diverted to the Israeli port of Ashdod, chose immediate expulsion by Israel: she preferred to sign for repatriation, thus avoiding detention.
«I launch the appeal so that the” Handala “, with its load of aid and toys, the most important thing on board that boat, is immediately released and is returned to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition: The Mare Nostrum is no longer anyone’s sea but only the Israeli sea where they can allow themselves to continue doing what they want. The concerns go to the conditions of the Palestinian population: the situation of Gaza, calling it a catastrophe is ridiculous: the bombs are adding to the extermination for hunger and thirst for an entire generation of young people. And there are a thousand pregnant women who risk losing their child before it comes to light for the conditions of bad nutrition ».
This was told, at Fiumicino airport, Antonio Mazzeo, activist and journalist engaged in the Palestinian cause. «I want to thank the Italian console in Israel who really made himself available – he added – we are deeply angry about what happened: we knew, starting, that the feat of touching Gaza would have been extremely complicated; But, that this time, less than 50 miles away from the Gaza Strip, a real abroad and the seizure of 21 people were repeated. I ask the Italian government and all the chancelleries of the countries present – it is the appeal that launch – to make sure that all the other people who have not been repatriated, are made to return in the shortest possible time. My interrogation was, to say the least, unworthy, “he concluded.