{"id":27241,"date":"2026-05-21T07:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/27241\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T07:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T07:26:11","slug":"after-condemnation-spain-demands-israel-release-44-gaza-flotilla-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/27241\/","title":{"rendered":"After condemnation, Spain demands Israel release 44 Gaza flotilla activists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forty-four Spanish activists detained in Israel who were on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla are expected to be released to Spain via Turkey in a flight leaving at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Spanish<\/a> Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Albares condemned Israel’s behavior towards the flotilla activists<\/a>, calling out National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s treatment of them as “monstrous, undignified, and humiliating.”<\/p>\n

The flotilla was intercepted<\/a> by the Israeli Navy on Tuesday night, with 428 participants from more than 40 countries detained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Around 90 of the detained activists began a hunger strike, according to the Global Sumud Flotilla.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Ben-Gvir shared videos<\/a> of himself harassing the detained flotilla activists in Ashdod, drawing immediate condemnation both internationally and from Israeli officials, and causing several countries, including Spain, to summon their Israeli charg\u00e9 d’affaires.<\/p>\n

In response to Ben-Gvir’s videos, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that while Israel has the right to respond to the flotilla, Ben-Gvir’s actions were unacceptable.<\/p>\n

Sarah Ben-Nun, Michael Starr, and Corinne Baum contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forty-four Spanish activists detained in Israel who were on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla are expected to be released…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14088,2291,1869,14087,17],"class_list":["post-27241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-ben-gvir","tag-flotilla","tag-global-sumud-flotilla","tag-itamar-ben-gvir","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27241","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=27241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}