The activists are expected to be detained then taken to Ashdod, where they will be told to sign deportation orders and flown out of the country.
    • Pogogunner@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      751·
      4 天前

      No, but it forces the issue of Israel intentionally terror-starving Palestinians to come back up and Israel can’t help but self-own by calling aid organizations Hamas

      • icelimit@lemmy.mlEnglish
        26·
        3 天前

        Are the flotilla recognised as legal humanitarian aid providers? I understand from other threads that Israel is legally required to allow humanitarian aid through. I assume here this would mean recognized humanitarian aid. Else it would be akin to just random people trying to run a blockade without a legally recognized reason, which would not put the IDF in the ‘legal’ wrong.

        Their subsequent treatment of the flotilla and it’s crew is something else to discuss of course

        I don’t even know if there’s such a thing as ‘legal humanitarian aid’ as opposed to an ‘illegal’ one.

        • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          1 天前

          No no, Israel are only allowing aid providers that they are okay with into Palestine. This means going directly through Israel’s singular entry system, which through a joint program with the US called USAID, takes the aid and trickle feeds the food and occasional blankets to a relatively small group of Palestinians. It is thoroughly controlled. Letting humanitarian aid access via any other means would mean Palestinians actually receive life-saving care.

          Don’t forget that the purpose of the mass murder of Palestinians is the same as it was 3,500 years ago, and hasn’t changed since Israel was created by England in 1948 to facilitate the mass migration of Jews: To completely erase the Palestinian people and have the Land their god Promised. Israelites - that is to say, Zionists who believe in stopping at nothing to establish an ethnically cleansed Israel - are, and always have been, a horrible, murderous colony. They are the root cause of the common knowledge that religion is the largest scapegoat of historical violence. Hell, the word ‘scapegoat’ originates from the ancient Hebrew ritual of superficially absolving a community’s sense of guilt for their sins.

        • Formfiller@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          3 天前

          “Legal” who is enforcing these international laws that we can all see Israel breaking? Think about this situation as how colonialist America legally took over all of the Native American land and exterminated them “legally”. It is the same story. Meanwhile Israeli settlers enjoy free universal healthcare and schooling the United States funds.

          • Dasus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            3 天前

            A bit of a tangent but just today I watched a short about the history of what British colonialist did to the Hijra in India.

            Basically they went over there and went “more than two genders? THAT’S ILLEGAL.”

            Yet nowadays we have transphobes always reciting how it’s somehow a woke new thing to not have the sexual sensibilities of a Victorian British person.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexuality_in_India#Colonial-era

            • Formfiller@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              3 天前

              It’s just so weird to give a fuck about how other people choose to live their lives with a literal child molester and human trafficker in the White House, a protected British royal child molester and a rapist on the Supreme Court. It’s really sick. Just let peaceful people exist in their own way. The gender role structure of how people should act and feel is all based on colonialist pseudoscience.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      462·
      4 天前

      Standing question as to how far they’d get. With Italian and Turkish support, there was some amount of speculation as to whether the IDF would risk a shooting war with a NATO state over a handful of civilian protesters doing an aquatic sit-in.

      What’s extra crazy is that they’re being arrested 80 miles off the coast in international waters, dragged into Israel, forced at gunpoint to sign deportation orders, and then being forced out again. That is, of course, assuming none of the soldiers decide to kill one or more of them along the way.

    • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      41·
      4 天前

      No but now there will be massive strikes in Spain and Italy that will shut down a bunch of stuff. Boycotting and sanctioning a country is a step by step process and this pours a lot of fuel on the fire that is the international anger at Israel.

    • mrdown@lemmy.worldEnglish
      412·
      4 天前

      We expected it and we can’t condemn it because abducting people is wrong

  • harmsy@lemmy.world
    English
    2·
    3 天前

    I really think the activists should start using Narco Subs to get the aid in. It might be more effective than surface ships.