Israel has begun the process for the deportation of the 12 activists aboard the intercepted aid ship, Madeline.
At press time, aircraft were being made ready at Ben Gurion Airport, near Tel Aviv, capital of Israel, for the deportation, with Swedish activist, Great Thunberg, one of the first to face such fate.
The activists had been kept in solitary confinement since their ship was intercepted, and had undergone medical checks and forced to watch a video of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Israel said it lost more than 1,200 soldiers, policemen and civilians in the attack in which Hamas and its affiliates also abducted 250 other Israelis.
The ship was ferrying humanitarian supplies of baby formula, flour, rice and medicines, into the embattled Palestinian enclave of Gaza before it was intercepted by Israeli troops on Monday morning.
The enclave has been under Israeli military blockade since 2007 when Hamas, the Palestinian party with a strong armed wing, won the general elections into political posts in the strip.
Madeline, like the ones before it, had been launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, in an effort to breach the blockade which is illegal under International Law.
Before Madeline, the same coalition had sent a similar ship in a similar mission about two months ago, but it was violently attacked with two drone-borne bombs off the Maltese waters.
That Maltese waters experience was a sad reminder of the 2010 incident when Israeli troops invaded an aid ship and killed its 10 occupants.
Like its predecessors, the Madeline trip was made to draw global attention to the prostrate humanitarian condition in Gaza and other parts of Palestine, following the harsh military and economic stranglehold of Israel, the occupying power.
