(9 Jun 2025)
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Ashdod, Israel – 9 June 2025
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1. Wide of Ashdod port and Mediterranean Sea
2. Various of local resident arguing with flotilla supporters holding banners and Palestinian flags
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Hadeel Abu Saleh, lawyer with legal rights group Adalah:
"We are basically expecting the flotilla passengers to arrive according to the information we got, or basically the information that’s being spread in the news by the authorities, they were captured around 3.30 in the morning. We’ve been trying to contact authorities in the morning in order to gather information, whether regarding their location or regarding the procedures they are willing to take in this situation. We still haven’t got any information from the authorities, except for the information they are spreading in the news."
4. Wide of ship at sea
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Hadeel Abu Saleh, lawyer with legal rights group Adalah:
“Our expectation is that they will be brought to a hearing in order to deport them after that. According to our previous experiences with the similar flotillas, we know that they should be brought also to court in Ramla, but still we still haven’t gotten any information in this regard from the authorities."
6. Mid of Abu Saleh
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Hadeel Abu Saleh, lawyer with legal rights group Adalah:
“We’re basically talking about people who were sailing in the international waters, and then Israel basically captured them and abducted them into Israel. And even the legal procedure they are willing to take does not apply to them, because they are talking about illegal people who entered Israel illegally. But the situation we’re talking about now is a situation that Israel brought those people inside of Israel, and now they want to deport them based on the claims that they entered Israel illegally. So basically Israel is using a legal framework that doesn’t apply to this situation."
8. Wide of port
STORYLINE:
A lawyer representing activists on a Gaza-bound aid boat detained by Israeli forces said Monday Israel is "using a legal framework that doesn’t apply to this situation."
Hadeel Abu Saleh, who works with legal rights group Adalah in Israel, provided an update on Greta Thunberg and other activists who were on board the Madleen.
“We’re basically talking about people who were sailing in the international waters, and then Israel basically captured them and abducted them into Israel," Abu Saleh told The Associated Press.
"But the situation we’re talking about now is a situation that Israel brought those people inside of Israel, and now they want to deport them based on the claims that they entered Israel illegally," she explained. "So basically Israel is using a legal framework that doesn’t apply to this situation."
Abu Saleh said the group has not received any information on the location of the activists from relevant authorities yet.
The activists had set out a week ago to protest Israel’s ongoing military campaign in the Gaza Strip, which is among the deadliest and most destructive since World War II, and its restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid, both of which have put the territory of some 2 million Palestinians at risk of famine.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which had organized the voyage, said the activists were “kidnapped by Israeli forces” while trying to deliver desperately needed aid to the territory.
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