Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares announced on Thursday that Madrid had once again summoned Israel\u2019s charge d\u2019affaires over the ongoing detention of a Spanish activist who was aboard a flotilla headed for Gaza.<\/p>\n
Continued detention called \u2018inadmissible\u2019<\/p>\n
Speaking during an extraordinary parliamentary session, Albares said Israeli diplomat Dana Erlich was summoned on Wednesday to convey that the continued detention of Spanish-Palestinian activist Saif Abukeshek is \u201cinadmissible.\u201d Spain considers the interception of the vessel in international waters and the detention of its crew as \u201ccontrary to international law,\u201d Albares stated. \u201cIt is unacceptable that in international waters vessels are boarded, their crew members detained and the vessels disabled,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Flotilla intercepted near Greece<\/p>\n
Abukeshek was detained after Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud flotilla near Greece on April 29. Brazilian activist Thiago Avila was also taken into custody. The two were among dozens of activists who had set sail to break Israel\u2019s naval blockade on Gaza. They remain in detention at least until Sunday. T\u00fcrkiye has repeatedly condemned Israel\u2019s blockade of Gaza and its interception of civilian flotillas, viewing such actions as collective punishment and violations of international maritime law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares announced on Thursday that Madrid had once again summoned Israel\u2019s charge d\u2019affaires…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10387,2291,398,1869,32,17],"class_list":["post-19057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-activist","tag-flotilla","tag-gaza","tag-global-sumud-flotilla","tag-israel","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}