A Belgian rapper arrested on board a flotilla on the way to Gaza. While 27 French were intercepted by Israeli authorities this Wednesday, October 8, aboard a humanitarian fleet in the direction of Gaza, the Belgian artist Youssef Swatt’s, winner of the program New school In 2024, he was also arrested, he announced to his lawyers.
To say “deeply worried” after the arrest of this 27 -year -old artist who also participated in the 2025 edition of the “Francofolies” festival, his lawyers ask the Belgian and European authorities to act with the Israeli authorities to obtain “the immediate release of all the people withdrawn during the” arrazation “of this new current.
Press “for immediate launch”
In a video posted in his X account, Youssef Swatt’s, his real name Youssef Reziki, addresses his audience, telephone in hand: “I call all my comrades, my friends, my family who press the Belgian government.”
And to add to the legend that accompanies the video of “join the blockages and challenge the authorities to demand their immediate launch.”
The lawyers of the French nationals present in the ships of this new flotilla on Wednesday also demanded their release.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel and the Global Coalition Sumud Flatilla, which coordinates this initiative, announced this interception on Wednesday morning.
“We transport vital aid”
Last week, several Belgians had already been arrested by Israeli forces after their boats. They stayed in detention for four days, before being finally released on Monday and expelled to Greece, from where they took a flight to Brussels on Tuesday.
Global Sumud Flotilla in its X account says that ships transported $ 110,000 in help in medicines, respiratory equipment and nutritional products for Gaza hospitals.
“The Israeli army has no jurisdiction in international waters. Our flotilla is harmless. We have vital help,” adds the coalition in the same position.
Several activists from an anterior flotilla for Gaza, including the Swedish Greta Thunberg, were expelled on Monday by Israel after having undergone a malactation after the Israeli Navy ordered by the convoy.
The objective of this flotilla was to break the block imposed by Israel in the Gaza Strip, devastated by the war launched by the attack on Hamas on October 7, 2023 on the Israeli soil and provide humanitarian aid to the Palestinian territory.
Source: BFM TV
