JERUSALEM: Gaza flotilla organizers say 211 activists 'kidnapped' by Israel reported on Thursday.
Earlier, Israel's foreign ministry said on Thursday, that Israeli forces had arrested about 175 activists aboard 20 ships from an aid-laden flotilla bound for Gaza.
"Approximately 175 activists from more than 20 boats are now making their way peacefully to Israel," the ministry said in a statement, including a video of the activists aboard an Israeli navy ship.
Meanwhile, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur, in her reaction posted on X, that the reported action amounted to an alarming extension of Israeli enforcement beyond its recognized jurisdiction.
In her post, she described the episode as evidence of what she characterized as “apartheid without borders,” warning that such incidents should “send shock waves across Europe.”
Israel controls all entry points to Gaza, and has been accused by the United Nations and foreign NGOs of strangling the flow of goods into the territory, causing shortages since the start of the war in Oct. 2023.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkiye released a statement on X, that Israel has violated humanitarian principles and international law by targeting the Global Sumud Flotilla who was purposed to draw attention to the humanitarian catastrophe faced by the innocent people of Gaza.
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