In detention center near Ben Gurion Airport Israel Eight Filmistinis remain activists arrested after occupation of their “Madleen” boat in the sea of Gaza.
In particular, the Israeli NGO “Adalah” working to defend human rights, said today (11.06.2025) that Israeli court has rejected the request filed by eight Philop -Falest activists to be released.
The Israeli court confirmed overnight “the detention order” of the eight activists until the next hearing set for July 8, 2025, the Israeli NGO said, which even assists most of them, mainly French MEP.
However, the NGO “Adalah” emphasizes, Activists can be sent back to their countries this weekas Israeli legislation provides for a maximum detention limit of 72 hours before a possible deportation of people who illegally entered the country.
Four of 12 boat activists for Gaza, Swedish Greta Tancyberg, two French and one Spanish, they returned to countries After accepting them Tuesday (10.06.2025), to be deported from Israel.
The eight activists, still held in Israel, refused to sign a deportation formquestioning the claim that they had entered Israeli territory illegally, according to the NGO.
During the hearing in court, the NGO questioned “the law applied by the court on illegal entry into Israel”, saying it did not apply to the Gaza activists’ status that said they were arrested in international waters.
Waiting, the eight activists, four French, one German, a Turk, a Dutch and a Brazilian, are held in a detention center in Ramla, a city near Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv.
The 12 activists had departed on June 1, 2025 with the Madleen sailboat in order to reach the Gaza Strip and to break the Israeli exclusion of the Palestinian enclavelocated on the brink of humanitarian disaster, after more than 20 months of war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist Movement of Hamas.
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Israeli Marines occupied the boat in the early hours of Monday (09.60.2025) about 185 kilometers from the coast of Gaza. For Israel, the main purpose of the exclusion is “preventing the transfer of weapons to Hamas”.
The war in Gaza was sparked by Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, which caused the deaths of 1,219 people on the Israeli side, most of the civilians, according to a countdown by the French Agency on the basis of official data.
Of the 251 people abducted the same day, 54 remain in Gaza, of which 32 are dead, according to Israeli authorities.
At least 54,880 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed during an attack by Israel in Gaza, according to data from the Hamas Health Ministry that are credible by the UN.