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On June 9, Israeli forces seized the Madleen ship in the international water from the Mediterranean Sea while trying to break the suffocating seat in Gaza.
The 12 activists on board – who belong to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition – were removed in international waters and taken to Israel.
One day after their capture, Four of them were quickly expelled After having renounced their right to see an Israeli judge and to sign an expulsion order which claimed that they had “illegally” entered Israel. The well -known Swedish climate and human rights activist Greta Thunberg was one of the expelled people.
The other eights refused to sign and stayed in detention. Six of them were expelled on Thursday, including Rima Hassan, a French Palestinian member from the European Parliament.
According to Adalah, a non -profit legal association in Israel, two other French nationals remain in police custody awaiting deportation awaiting deportation.
That’s all you need to know about their treatment.
Who are the 12 activists?
On Tuesday, Israel expelled Thunberg (Sweden), Sergio Toribio (Spain), Baptiste Andre (France) and Omar Faiad (France). FAIAD is an Al Jazeera MUBASHER journalist.
On Thursday, six others were expelled, including Rima Hassan, a French-Palestinian member of the European Parliament, Mark Van Rennes (Netherlands), Suayb Ordu (Turkiye), Yasemin Acar (Germany), Thiago Avila (Brazil) and Reva Viard (France), according to Adalah, quoted by the Turkish press agency.
French nationals Pascal Maurieras and Yanis Mhamdi remain in detention and should be released on Friday, according to Adalah. Mhamdi is a journalist for The Blast, a French left.
Where have the activists been held?
In Givon prison in Ramla, a city between Western Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
According to Adalah, two of the activists, Hassan and Avila, were placed in lonely isolation.
Hassan was taken there after writing the first “free Palestine” on the prison walls. Adalah later reported that Avila started hungry and a water strike to protest against the blockade of Israel from Gaza, which led to general famine.
Hassan was then returned to Givon, said Adalah.
After the release of Hassan and Avila by Thursday, as well as four others from Madleen, Adalah published a statement saying that “volunteers were subjected to ill -treatment, punitive measures and aggressive treatment, and two volunteers were detained during a certain period of stay in isolation”.
Has Israel violated international law by stopping Madleen activists?
According to Luigi Daniele, a legal researcher at the University of Molise, in Italy, Israel is not allowed to intercept a boat in international waters or to deny aid to the hungry civilians in Gaza.
On the contrary, Israel has an international legal obligation as an occupying power to facilitate aid to Gaza.
He said A local Italian point of sale This Israel, above all, has the legal right to use the force or permanent assault on the occupied Palestinian territory, including against the militants who were sailing in Gaza on Madleen.
Adalah also argued that activists did not try to illegally enter Israel, but who were sailing towards Gaza, which is occupied with the Palestinian lands.
Israeli courts have rejected the legal arguments put forward by Adalah.
How long will the two remaining activists remain in detention?
Madleen activists are supposed to serve 72 hours in the Israeli prison before being expelled in their country of origin, according to Israeli law.
This indicates that all activists should have been released at one point on June 12, but it is not clear if the remaining detainees – Maurieras and Mhamdi – will face additional accusations that could keep them longer in prison.
Did the embassies put pressure on their release?
Some have, while others were curiously silent.
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noel Barrot, said earlier this week that he expected the four French activists who were on board Madleen returned to France on Thursday or Friday. Thursday, two stayed in detention.
Brazil also demanded the release of the Brazilian activist, Avila. When the activists were removed for the first time from international waters, Brazilian diplomats would have visited Givon prison to help the legal proceedings.
In addition, Turkiye called Israel as a “terrorist state” after the interception of Madleen.
Germany and the Netherlands, however, have not published public statements to demand the release of their nationals.
The captain of Madleen, Mark Van Reine, expelled on Thursday, is a Dutch national who filmed just before Israel seized the ship.
In the video, he called on his country to urgently demand his release.
Special Rapporteur of the United Nations for the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, also published on X that “The silence of [European Union] institutions on illegal detention and punitive conditions imposed on the citizens of the EU, in particular [Hassan] Long says about the deep roots of Israelism in European institutional culture ”.
