From 8h ago Israel’s defence minister says Madleen passengers will be shown video of 7 October attacks Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, has congratulated the Israeli army on the “quick and safe takeover” of the Madleen , the Gaza-bound aid vessel.
Share Updated at 12.20 CEST Share An Israeli man confronts Israeli activists holding placards and waving Palestinian flags as they protest near the port of Ashdod, Israel.
“I strongly condemn the seizure of the Madleen, which was carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza,” she wrote on Bluesky.
#AllEyesOnMadleen“ Spain’s socialist-led government has been one of the most outspoken European critics of Israel’s prosecution of its war in Gaza.
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Madleen passengers will be shown footage of the October 7 attacks, according to Israel’s defense minister.
The Israeli army has been commended by Israel Katz, the country’s defense minister, for its “quick and safe takeover” of the Madleen, the aid ship headed for Gaza.
The IDF has been ordered to “show the flotilla passengers the video of the horrors of the October 7 massacre,” Katz said, adding that the passengers, including French MEP Rima Hassan and climate activist Greta Thunberg, will be taken to the port of Ashdod. “”.
Katz said he wanted the other activists on board, including Thunberg himself, to “see exactly who the Hamas terrorist organization they came to support and for whom they work is, what atrocities they committed against women, the elderly, and children, and against whom Israel is fighting to defend itself.”. “”.
The current conflict in Gaza started on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an attack on southern Israel that killed over 1,200 people, according to an Israeli count.
Since the campaign began, more than 54,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
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European nations are pushing for a vote this week on reimposing UN sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program, and Iran has announced that it will soon begin disclosing information from a cache of Israeli nuclear secrets that it says it has obtained.
Iran may be trying to divert attention from what it claims is its own overly closely watched civil nuclear program by making unsubstantiated claims of a massive leak of Israeli secrets.
Esmail Khatib, the Iranian intelligence minister, asserted on Sunday that Tehran had acquired “a vast collection of strategic and sensitive [Israeli] documents, including plans and data on the nuclear facilities.”. He implied that some of the documentation was connected to Israel’s arrest of two Israeli nationals, Roi Mizrahi and Almog Attias, for alleged Iranian spying and added that more evidence would be made public soon.
The idea that Iranian agents could have gotten such dramatic intelligence is questioned even within Iran. It’s possible that the claim is meant to deter Israel from carrying out its repeated threats to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites because Iranian knowledge of Israel’s own nuclear program would make effective Iranian retaliation more likely.
At the IAEA’s quarterly board meeting in Vienna, which begins Monday, European powers are getting ready to push for a vote that might result in the reinstatement of UN sanctions in October. The IAEA secretariat was commissioned to produce a 20-page comprehensive report on Iran’s noncompliance with the 2015 nuclear deal and Tehran’s years-long refusal to provide answers regarding certain aspects of its prior nuclear program, which France, Germany, and the UK will cite.
According to AFP, France said Monday it would act to ensure the quick return of French nationals on a boat carrying aid headed for Gaza that was stopped by Israeli security forces.
According to a presidential official who asked not to be identified, President Emmanuel Macron has asked that the six French nationals on board the Madleen “be allowed to return to France as soon as possible.” Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot stated that Paris would endeavor “to facilitate their swift return to France.”.
According to Adalah, an Israeli rights organization that claimed to be representing the activists, Israel lacked “legal authority” to seize the ship since it was in international waters and was bound for the “territorial waters of the state of Palestine” rather than Israel.
“A major violation of international law has been committed by the arrest of the unarmed activists who were acting in a civilian capacity to deliver humanitarian aid,” Adalah stated in a statement.
In order to facilitate legal representation before Israeli authorities and tribunals, Adalah demands that the activists’ location, legal status, and access to legal counsel be made public immediately.
To ensure the activists’ safety and release, Adalah will take legal action.
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Near the Israeli port of Ashdod, Israeli activists protest while brandishing Palestinian flags and holding placards are confronted by an Israeli man.
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Spanish Labor Minister Yolanda Díaz, one of Spain’s three deputy prime ministers, has criticized Israel’s boat seizure and demanded a “clear and firm response” from the European Union.
She wrote on Bluesky, “I vehemently condemn the seizure of the Madleen, which was carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.”. The EU must respond to this breach of international law with clarity and vigor. My sympathies are with the volunteers who are being detained. We demand their immediate release. “Everything OnMadleen.”.
A prominent European critic of Israel’s conduct of its war in Gaza is the socialist-led government of Spain.
Spain’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, called Israel a “genocidal state” last month, prompting Israel to say it had called the ambassador for a formal correction.
During a debate in the Spanish parliament, Sánchez made the comments while his government was being accused of carrying on with its trade with Israel. The prime minister stated, “I want to make one clarification.”. “We don’t trade with a state that commits genocide. We don’t. . “”.
Díaz has stated that “the genocide of the Palestinian people cannot go unpunished,” and the prime minister has previously voiced “genuine doubts” about whether Israel was abiding by international humanitarian law in its offensive in Gaza.
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El País claims that in protest of the Madleen’s seizure, Spain’s foreign ministry has invited an Israeli diplomat to a meeting today. One of the activists on the boat is Sergio Toribio, a Spanish national.
According to sources in the foreign ministry, “the foreign ministry is exercising consular protection with regard to our citizen and is in contact with the Spaniard in question, his family, and the Israeli foreign ministry.”.
As he holds up his Spanish passport, Toribio says, “My name is Segio Toribio from Spain,” in a pre-recorded video that has been shared on social media. We were intercepted at sea, and if you are watching this video, Israeli occupation forces—or forces from a nation that is complicit in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people—have taken me hostage.
I urge all of my friends, family, and fellow soldiers to exert pressure on the Spanish government to demand my immediate release. “”.
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In Jerusalem, our correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison has this report on the Madleen’s seizure.
Early Monday morning, Israel’s military captured a boat that was attempting to transport food to Gaza’s Palestinian population and took its activists, including Greta Thunberg, to an Israeli port.
The Madleen was attempting to break the blockade of Gaza in a symbolic way and draw attention to the impending “starvation crisis.”.
Israel’s naval blockade of the region, where UN-backed experts have warned of impending famine and Israeli forces have killed dozens of people attempting to reach food distribution centers, made it unlikely that it would pass.
It’s dangerous even to try to get to Gaza by boat. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, the organization that planned the Madleen’s journey, reported that Israeli drones were responsible for the May fire on another vessel that was traveling with them off the coast of Malta. Israel’s armed forces refused to comment.
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Israel is accused by Turkey of functioning “as a terror state.”.
Turkey has also accused Israel of acting “as a terror state” and denounced Israel’s capture of the Madleen.
Among the twelve crew members is Suayb Ordu, a Turkish activist. “Clear violation of international law” is how the Turkish foreign ministry described the action.
The intervention, according to the statement, “once again demonstrates that Israel is acting as a terror state” and endangered maritime security. “”.
Iran declares the Madleen’s interception to be “an act of piracy.”.
According to Agence France-Presse, Iran has denounced Israel’s piracy-related interception of the aid ship headed for Gaza, the Madleen.
“The attack on this flotilla is a form of piracy under international law because it took place in international waters,” Esmaeil Baqaei, the spokesman for the foreign ministry, stated at a press conference in Tehran on Monday.
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