A bunch of activists and politicians deported from Israel for being a part of an support flotilla to Gaza expressed their fears for his or her fellow activists nonetheless in Israel, in accordance to Reuters.
Twenty-one primarily Spanish detainees landed in Madrid on Sunday and have been seen hugging relieved family and supporters in video printed by the information company.
Goretti Sarasibar, one of many returning activists, informed Reuters the group was launched from their cells in the morning and brought to a yard the place they have been pressured to watch photos of the October 7, 2023, Hamas assault on Israel.
“Now we are super happy eating, as we were starving,” he mentioned. “They didn’t give us food all day.”
Fellow deportee Rafael Borrego confirmed the handcuff marks on his wrists and described the jail circumstances in a Reuters video.
Juan Bordera, a Spanish lawmaker and activist, mentioned “we fear” for the remaining prisoners, echoing previous reports of harrowing conditions on the jail comparable to “rotten food,” undrinkable water and beatings with some prisoners resorting to starvation strikes.
Dutch activist Marco Tesh added:
They have been among the many 437 activists, together with Greta Thunberg, arrested final week aboard the Global Sumud flotilla, a coalition of greater than 40 humanitarian support vessels.
Responding to earlier reviews the activists had been mistreated, Israel’s international ministry mentioned the claims have been “brazen lies.”