End of the trip. “If you see this video, it is because the state of Israel or the forces of the accomplices intercepted us.” Madleen’s humanitarian sailboat, especially with the French breakdown Rima Hassan and Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, particularly on Sunday, June 8 to Monday, June 9 by Israeli authorities.
The sailboat “safely on the coast of Israel. Passengers are expected to return to their countries,” said the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement.
“While Geta and others were trying to organize a provocation of media whose sole objective was to announce, and that included less than a single help truck, more than 1,200 help trucks have entered Israel Gaza in the last two weeks, and in addition, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has distributed almost 11 million meals directly to the civilians of Gaza,” the ministry added.
A “selfie yacht” with “celebrities” for Israel
During the night, the organization of the Freedom Flotilla coalition, which has rented the boat, had announced that the Israeli army had arrested it. “The connection was lost with Madleen. The Israeli army lifted the boat,” he said on Telegram, saying that the crew had been “kidnapped by Israeli forces.”
In video surveillance images, passengers appear raised arms, life is added by the neck.
The sailboat with twelve militants, French, German, Brazilian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish and Dutch aboard on board Italy, on June 1 to “break the Israeli block” in Gaza, prey to a disastrous humanitarian situation after more than a year and a half of war. After a stop in Egypt, he approached Gaza despite the warnings of Israel, who had the order of his army to avoid it.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon asks “mobilizations”
The sailboat had left Italy on June 1 to “break the Israeli block” in Gaza, in the control of a disastrous humanitarian situation after more than a year and a half of war. After a stop in Egypt, he approached Gaza despite the warnings of Israel, who had given the order to his army to avoid it.
In X, Jean-Luc Mélenchon denounced an “illegal arrest” of the 12 passengers of the boat and requested “mobilizations” on Monday “everywhere in France” in support of the boat and “for the end of the genocide in Gaza”.
The organization of the Freedom Flotilla coalition also denounced a “manifest violation of international laws”, ensuring that the organized took place in international waters. “Israel has no legal authority to maintain international volunteers aboard the Madleen, said his manager, Huwaida Arraf.
“The small amount of help was on the yacht and has not been consumed by ‘celebrities’ will be transferred to Gaza by real humanitarian channels,” said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In a statement published on Saturday, the World Organization of Horn (WHO) warned “the collapse of the Health System of the Gaza Strip”, where “there is no hospital in service in the north” of the territory.
Israel has been at war with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza since the bloody attack perpetrated by him in Israel on October 7, 2023. This attack led to the death of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official data.
Of the 251 people retired, 55 remain held in the Gaza Strip, including at least 31 dead, according to Israeli authorities. More than 54,772 Palestinians, mainly civilians, were killed in Israeli military retaliations, according to data from the Ministry of Hamas, considered reliable by the UN.
In 2010, an international fleet of eight load load that transported almost 700 passengers, part of Turkey to try to force the blockade of the Gaza Strip had been arrested by an Israeli military operation that had killed ten people among activists.
Source: BFM TV
