Antique Help boat Bringing the environmental activist Greta Thunberg and other activists were intercepted by the Israeli forces and “was safely heading to the coast of Israel” on Sunday night, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel. Israel’s Minister of Defense had promised to prevent the ship from reaching Gaza pull.
“Passengers are expected to return to their countries of origin,” said Israel’s Ministry of Defense on social networks. The ministry said that any help on the ship would be sent to Gaza.
The Freedom Flotilla coalition, which organized the effort largely symbolic to provide humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip and protest for the blockade of Israel and behavior in times of war in the Palestinian territory, said that activists had “kidnapped the issue of byords.”
“The ship was illegal addressed, its unarmed civil crew and its formula for babies, food and medical supplies that saves confiscated lives,” he said in a statement.
Defense Minister Israel Katz, had said on the early Sunday that Israel would allow anyone to break the naval blockade of Gaza’s country, who said he was aimed at the prevention of Hamas to import weapons.
“I have ordered the IDF to act so that the ‘Madeleine’ flotilla does not reach Gaza,” Katz said in a statement from his office. “To the anti -Semitic Greta and her fellow Hamas propagandists, I will say this, you would say that Gylest Gymnast
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Thunberg was among the 12 activists aboard the Madleen, which was operated by the Freedom Flotilla coalition. The coalition says it is a base movement that works to end the blockade of Gaza de Israel.
“Greta Thunberg is currently going to Israel, safe and in a good mood,” said Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a series of publications on the interception on Monday, accompanied by a photo of a smiling squat of life jacket.
The Ministry published a series of photos and videos that show the crew of the Flotilla ship sitting in a narrower container as water and sandwiches are offered. In a publication, with a video of the activists, the Ministry tagged the group commander of the group a “Yate Selfie”, and adds: “The program is over.”
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Initially, it was believed that the actor of “Game of Thrones” Liam Cunningham was also in the Madleen, but did not participate in the trip after helping to load the ship before his departure from Catania, on the Italian island of Sicily.
The ship left Sicily on June 1, and the group had said they planned to reach the territorial waters of Gaza approximately one week later.
On Sunday, in a position on social networks, the coalition accused Israel of clogging their communications as they approached, about 160 nautical miles from Gaza.
“Help us break the siege,” said the post.
Rima Hassan, a French member of the European Parliament that is of Palestinian descent, is among others on board. He has forbidden him to enter Israel because either his opposition to Israeli policies towards the Palestinians.
“We have less than 24 hours for the last time we are illegally detained by the Israeli authorities who want to prevent us from getting to the Gaza Strip,” he wrote in an X position on Sunday. “When we can no longer communicate with you, I have you to continue the mobilization that has been so valuable to us through this trip.”
After a total three -month block aimed at the pressure of Hamas, Israel began to allow some basic help to Gaza last month, but humanitarian workers have warned hunger unless the blockade and war end.
An attempt last month for Freedom Flotilla to get to Gaza by Mar failed after another of the group’s ships was attacked by two drones while sailing in international waters against Malta. The group blamed Israel for the attack, which damaged the front section of the ship. Israel has not commented on the attack.
The Palestinians say that 12 killed by Israeli fire near help sites
The Ministry and Palestinian Health Witnesses, led by Hamas, say that at least 12 people were killed and others were injured by the Israeli fire while they were heading towards two aid distribution points in the Gaza Strip directed by an Israeli and Usbacked. Israel’s army said he shot people who approached their forces.
The Palestinian witnesses in the southern city of Khan Younis said that the Israeli forces had shot them in a roundabout that is a few kilometers (half mile) of a place directed by GHF in the nearby city of Rafah.
The Israeli army said the warning shots to the people who said they advanced towards their strength and ignored the warnings to move away. He said the shooting occurred in an area in southern Gaza that is considered an active combat zone at night.
A GHF spokesman said there was no violence in their distribution sites or around, the three delivered help on Sunday. The group had He closed them temporarily Last week to discuss security measures with the Israeli army and have warned people who remain on designated access routes. The spokesman spoke on condition of anonymity in line with the regulations.
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The centers are installed within the Israeli military areas, where independent media have no access, and are managed by GHF, a new group of mainly American contractors. Israel wants you to replace a system coordinated by the United Nations and international aid groups.
Israel and the United States accuse the militant group Hamas of robbery help, while the UN denies that there is some systematic deviation. The UN says that the new system cannot meet assembly needs and allows Israel to use help as a weapon when determining who can receive it and force people to move to where the help sites are placed.
Save the Children CEO: No help from the organization has arrived in Gaza since March 2
Janti Suripto, the CEO of Save the Children, He said to “face the nation with Margaret Brennan“On Sunday that his organization has not been able to distribute help to Gaza since March 2 because the ports” received the authorization of Israel.
“Although the blockade has ended formally, we house any of the 50 trucks that we have around Gaza on the border ready to work, we have been able to obtain anything,” said Sureipto.
In addition, Suripto said there are supplies decreasing.
President Trump has urged the UN to work with GHF to distribute help. Suripto said that Save The Children has “given many comments and shared our concerns.”
“We and all the other operational agencies in Gaza have shared our concerns with this new mechanism,” Suripto said. “We thought that the existing mechanism worked well when we had the pause in the struggle of January to March, as you remember, we obtained trucks and supplies trucks at scale. We could deliver.”
The dishes have been killed trying to reach GHF distribution sites, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, directed by Hamas. Suripto called its distribution a “help military.”
“If you put men with weapons about a distribution point and then ask a desperate and hungry population to come to walk through miles to obtain food boxes, you will create crowd control problems and a greater risk of damage to a desperate one.
Israeli officials have said that naval blockade continues until all hostages are returned and Hamas is defeated or disarmed and sent into exile.
Hamas has said that he will only release the hostages of remake in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a high durable fire and an Israeli retreat from Gaza. The conversations mediated by the United States, Egypt and Qatar have been stagnant for months.
Hamas began the war with his massive attack south of Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking another 251 people as hostages. Fifty -five of them are still detained, with Ferwer half that is believed to be alive. The rest were released in high fire agreements or other agreements.
Israel has recovered boxes of bodies, including Three in Recent daysand rescued eight living hostages in the course of the war.
Israel’s military campaign has killed more than 54,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health led by Hamas. He has said that women and children constitute most of the dead, but do not say how many civilians or combatants were killed. Israel says he has killed more than 20,000 militants, without providing evidence.