{"id":85164,"date":"2026-05-18T14:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/85164\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:50:07","slug":"israel-detains-finnish-activist-after-gaza-flotilla-interception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/85164\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel detains Finnish activist after Gaza flotilla interception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Finnish activist was among dozens of crew members detained after Israeli forces illegally intercepted vessels from the Global Sumud flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea, organisers said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The flotilla had departed from Turkey four days earlier with the stated aim of delivering humanitarian supplies to Gaza and challenging the Israeli blockade of the territory.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Organisers said Israeli forces stopped several boats around 250 nautical miles from Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t &#13;<\/p>\n<p>According to the group, 16 vessels had been intercepted by Sunday afternoon and crew members taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The flotilla originally consisted of 52 vessels carrying activists from several countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Among those detained was a Finnish nurse and environmental activist identified only as Tero. Organisers said another Finnish participant, a teacher and mother identified as \u00c4m\u00e4l, remained aboard one of the vessels still at sea.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The activist network accused Israel of blocking humanitarian aid shipments that included bottled water, medical supplies, school backpacks and canned food.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/Bv3hxpqHWWc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Live video streams<\/a> from the flotilla showed activists broadcasting the interceptions and issuing distress calls from the boats.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The intercepted vessels named by organisers included Cactus, Holy Blue, Amanda, Bianca ITA and Themis.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Organisers said participants had prepared for possible intervention before the ships departed from Turkey. Activists on board remained unarmed during the operation, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Support groups in Finland announced an emergency demonstration outside the Finnish Parliament building in Helsinki on Sunday at 6 PM.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>HT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Finnish activist was among dozens of crew members detained after Israeli forces illegally intercepted vessels from the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[87],"tags":[45470,158,45465,45469,45464,45468,39455,113,45471,45466,13003,45467],"class_list":["post-85164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-helsinki","tag-eduskuntatalo","tag-finland","tag-finnish-activist-detained","tag-finnish-protest","tag-gaza-aid-flotilla","tag-gaza-blockade","tag-global-sumud-flotilla","tag-helsinki","tag-humanitarian-aid-gaza","tag-israel-gaza","tag-mediterranean-sea","tag-tero-finland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116596141459725579","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}