Rights group says volunteers, including MEP Rima Hassan, subjected to \u2018mistreatment, aggressive treatment\u2019.<\/p>\n
Palestinian rights group Adalah has confirmed Israel\u2019s deportation of six more activists detained on board the Madleen<\/a> aid ship as they sought to draw international attention to Israel\u2019s illegal blockade of Gaza.<\/p>\n The rights group, which legally represented the 12 passengers who were seized by Israeli forces in the eastern Mediterranean earlier this week, said on Thursday that the six detainees \u2013 two French citizens, including Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan, and nationals of Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands and Turkiye \u2013 had departed Israel.<\/p>\n Another two French nationals remain in Israeli custody awaiting deportation on Friday, Adalah told the news agency AFP.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile in custody, volunteers were subjected to mistreatment, punitive measures and aggressive treatment, and two volunteers were held for some period of time in solitary confinement,\u201d said Adalah.<\/p>\n Hassan, a French-Palestinian member of the European Parliament, had previously been barred from entering Israel and the Palestinian territory, due to her support for boycotts of the country in light of Israel\u2019s occupation of Palestinian land.<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which had dismissed the aid boat as a \u201cselfie yacht\u201d, posted a photo of Hassan on what appeared to be an aeroplane, confirming the deportation of the six passengers.<\/p>\n Four<\/a> of the ship\u2019s passengers, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and Al Jazeera Mubasher reporter Omar Faiad, were deported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n \u2018We will not stop\u2019<\/p>\n On Thursday, Hassan\u2019s X account featured a post, calling on supporters to assemble in Place de la Republique in Paris, where protests calling for the release of the passengers still in Israeli detention and a lifting of the Gaza blockade had been held earlier in the week.<\/p>\n German citizen Yasemin Acar<\/a> was also among Thursday\u2019s deportees. A video circulating online showed her saying that she had arrived in Germany. \u201cI just arrived in Germany. I am safe. But one thing is very clear: The siege of Gaza is still ongoing. The illegal blockade is still ongoing. People are still starving.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe only reason I did this, as a German citizen, is because my country, the very ground that I\u2019m standing on, is not doing what they\u2019re supposed to do. They\u2019re sending more weapons \u2026 We need to stop this. We need to hold our politicians accountable for the genocide, for the starvation, for the killing of children, thousands of men and women. We will not stop.\u201d<\/p>\n All 12 people on board the Madleen have been banned from Israel for 100 years.<\/p>\n \u2018Catastrophic hunger\u2019<\/p>\n The United Nations has warned that Gaza\u2019s entire population faces \u201ccatastrophic hunger\u201d following nearly two years of war and over two months in which Israel has been blocking or heavily restricting the entry of food and other essential supplies.<\/p>\n Following an 11-week total blockade from March to May, Israel set up a new aid programme replacing existing networks run by the United Nations and charities, run by the shadowy US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation<\/a> (GHF).<\/p>\n