Netanyahu Denies Aid from Flotilla
Global Sumud Flotilla
An additional 171 participants from the Global Sumud Flotilla were deported on Monday, according to the Israeli foreign ministry, including citizens of Greece, Italy, France, Ireland, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Austria, Luxembourg, Finland, Denmark, Slovakia, Switzerland, Norway, the UK, Serbia, and the United States. Around 138 of the original 449 remain in Israeli custody. Lawyers report detainees face overcrowding, denial of life-saving medication, scarce food and water, beatings, blindfolding, and restricted religious practice, conditions that the legal group Adalah links to Interior Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s approval of treating flotilla participants “as terrorists.” Drop Site has not yet confirmed whether our journalist, Alex Colston, is on the plane to Athens, Greece. Take action to pressure the U.S., Israel, and global leaders here.
42 volunteers from the Global Sumud Flotilla launched a collective hunger strike inside Israeli prisons, refusing food from the authorities responsible for what organizers call a “genocidal starvation campaign” against Palestinians in Gaza. The confirmed list of hunger strikers includes participants from over a dozen countries.
Senator Chris Van Hollen says the U.S. Embassy has offered “no real response” concerning Americans in Israeli detention. When contacted by Drop Site News about the continued detention of the participants, including Colston, who was on the boat as a journalist, the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem said: “The Department has no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens. We are coordinating directly and closely with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We are actively coordinating with the Israeli government for the expeditious departure of all U.S. citizens involved. The Embassy is providing full consular services to all U.S. citizens, and we have been assured that they are receiving food, water, and medical treatment. Our last consular visit was on Sunday, October 5.”
Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall reports for Drop Site from the Conscience, one of 11 boats in the Freedom Flotilla / Thousand Madleens currently making its way to Gaza. The vessel carries over 90 people, mostly medics and journalists, and is currently sailing north of Egypt. A low-flying military aircraft, likely Israeli or Turkish, circled the ship earlier today, Schnall reports.
Source: Drop Site News
An additional 171 participants from the Global Sumud Flotilla were deported on Monday, according to the Israeli foreign ministry, including citizens of Greece, Italy, France, Ireland, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Austria, Luxembourg, Finland, Denmark, Slovakia, Switzerland, Norway, the UK, Serbia, and the United States. Around 138 of the original 449 remain in Israeli custody. Lawyers report detainees face overcrowding, denial of life-saving medication, scarce food and water, beatings, blindfolding, and restricted religious practice, conditions that the legal group Adalah links to Interior Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s approval of treating flotilla participants “as terrorists.” Drop Site has not yet confirmed whether our journalist, Alex Colston, is on the plane to Athens, Greece. Take action to pressure the U.S., Israel, and global leaders here.
42 volunteers from the Global Sumud Flotilla launched a collective hunger strike inside Israeli prisons, refusing food from the authorities responsible for what organizers call a “genocidal starvation campaign” against Palestinians in Gaza. The confirmed list of hunger strikers includes participants from over a dozen countries.
Senator Chris Van Hollen says the U.S. Embassy has offered “no real response” concerning Americans in Israeli detention. When contacted by Drop Site News about the continued detention of the participants, including Colston, who was on the boat as a journalist, the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem said: “The Department has no higher priority than the safety and security of U.S. citizens. We are coordinating directly and closely with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We are actively coordinating with the Israeli government for the expeditious departure of all U.S. citizens involved. The Embassy is providing full consular services to all U.S. citizens, and we have been assured that they are receiving food, water, and medical treatment. Our last consular visit was on Sunday, October 5.”
Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall reports for Drop Site from the Conscience, one of 11 boats in the Freedom Flotilla / Thousand Madleens currently making its way to Gaza. The vessel carries over 90 people, mostly medics and journalists, and is currently sailing north of Egypt. A low-flying military aircraft, likely Israeli or Turkish, circled the ship earlier today, Schnall reports.
Source: Drop Site News
