Rome – Some of the detained activists returned while trying to reach Gaza by sea to their countries of origin to describe abuse and humiliation at the hands of the Israeli guards.
About 450 activists were arrested, as Israeli forces objected to the global Somoud fleet, a fleet of 42 boats seeking to break the maritime blockade in Israeli Gaza and provide a symbolic amount of aid to the famine area. Those detainees were brought between Wednesday and Friday to Israel, where many remain in prison.
Italian journalist Sfirio Thomasi said that the Israeli soldiers blocked medicines and treating prisoners “like monkeys.”
“This is called torture. It is called torture, denial of human rights, and even the most basic.”
“They took everyone’s medicines: people with heart disease, asthma, and even a 86 -year -old man … took his inhabitant.”
Among the detainees were the Swedish activist Greta Thonberg, the grandson of Nelson Mandela Mandilla Mandela and many European legislators.
Thomasi said Thonberg was distinguished by the Israeli forces after his arrest.
“We also saw Greta Thonberg in the port, in this case with her arms bound and an Israeli flag next to her, just a mockery,” he said. “Let’s say that mockery was part of the verbal and psychological violence they have always done, in order to abolish the ridicule and laughter in the situations where there is no laughter.”
Hamid’s fleet came at a time when US President Donald Trump was mocking a new peace initiative in Gaza, including the proposed ceasefire, as he ordered Israel to stop bombing Gaza.
Another Italian journalist, Lorenzo Dagostino, said that the detainees woke up again and again during two nights who died behind bars. They were also intimidated with dogs and soldiers who refer to the scenes of lasers for their rifles on the prisoners “to intimidate us.”
“I felt that I was being held by a terrorist organization,” he said after landing at Istanbul airport, where 137 activists from 13 countries from Israel arrived on Saturday.
D’Agostino added that his property and money were “stolen by the Israelis.”
Activist Paulo de Montes described him as being crammed into the prison truck for hours with his guaranteed hands from the zip code links.
“Constant stress and humiliation,” said. “You were not allowed to look at them in your face, and you always had to keep your head down and when I looked up, a man came … and shook me and slapped me on the back of the head.”
In a statement, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Bin Ghaffir said he was “proud” of the way employees were spent in Kitzot prison, a facility in the Negif Desert.
“I was proud to deal with” fleet activists “as supporters of terrorism. Anyone who supports terrorism is a terrorist and deserves the conditions of terrorists,” he said.
“If any of them believed that they would come here and receive a red carpet and trumpets – they were wrong. They must feel a good feeling of circumstances in the Kitzot prison and think twice before they approached Israel again.”
At the same time, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the claims of ill -treatment were “rude lies.”
In a statement on social media, the ministry said that all legal rights of all detainees “have been fully supported,” adding that Thunberg did not complain of “irony and baseless allegations – because they never spoke.”
The arrests resulted in criticism from many governments, including Türkiye, Colombia and Pakistan. Greece, which had 27 of its citizens in the Israeli reservation, released a strong written protest “to Israel about” unacceptable and inappropriate behavior for an Israeli minister. “
The complaint is believed to refer to Ben-GVIR footage that raises activists to support “terrorism” and mockery of the aid initiative after they were brought to the beach in the southern port of Ashdod on Friday.
The Swedish Foreign Ministry said it “acted extensively to ensure the observation of the rights of the detainees.”
The fleet’s objection also led to widespread demonstrations in cities around the world.
Wilkes from Istanbul. The Associated Press Natalie Miller in Tel Aviv, Israel, Elena Picatons in Athens, Greece and Stephanie Diazio in Berlin and Khalil Hamra in Istanbul.
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