The Israeli foreign ministry on Friday said procedures were under way to deport the participants in its custody, which organisers have put at about 450 people. Four Italian MPs among the 40 Italian nationals taking part in the flotilla are expected to return on a scheduled flight to Italy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Footage from Thursday night showed the final boat of the flotilla crewed by six people, including three Turkish citizens, a German and an Omani. Speaking via a video call with flotilla organisers, the Australian captain of Marinette said: \u201cWe have a bunch of very tough Turks onboard \u2026 we\u2019ve got a lady from Oman and myself, and we\u2019re just going to continue in the direction.\u201d<\/p>\n Hannah Claire Smith, <\/strong>a flotilla spokesperson, said Marinette had joined the flotilla late after bad weather had forced it to return to port in Barcelona.<\/p>\n It was probably because of the delay that it managed to surprise the Israelis. The boat was intercepted in the early hours of Friday morning when GSF estimates it was 42.5 nautical miles from the Gaza<\/a> coast \u2013 the first time since Israel imposed a naval blockade in 2009 that an unauthorised humanitarian mission had come closer than 70 nautical miles to Gaza.<\/p>\n Previous attempts by activists to break the naval blockade on Gaza were stopped by force by the Israeli military. In 2010, 10 Turkish activists were killed by Israeli commandos who raided the Mavi Marmara ship<\/a> as it led an aid flotilla towards Gaza.<\/p>\n According to the flotilla\u2019s live tracker<\/a>, a sailing boat named Mikeno also appeared to have crossed into Gaza\u2019s territorial waters, idling 9 miles off the coast before being intercepted.<\/p>\n GSF said it had no firm information, however, as the organisers had lost contact with Mikeno\u2019s crew hours earlier.<\/p>\n \u201cIt could be a tracker error or a technical issue with the monitoring,\u201d said Smith. \u201cWe will only have confirmation after speaking with the Mikeno crew, which is impossible right now as they are currently being held by the Israelis.\u201d<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to Headlines Europe<\/p>\n A digest of the morning’s main headlines from the Europe edition emailed direct to you every week day<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. 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We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n The detained activists on the flotilla are being taken to Israel where they will face deportation, according to Israel\u2019s foreign ministry.<\/p>\n Some of those on the latest flotilla, including Thunberg, have been previously detained by Israeli authorities as they attempted to break the blockade.<\/p>\n In the past, activists detained by Israel were not criminally prosecuted and instead their presence was treated as an immigration matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last boat of the 42 vessels in the Gaza humanitarian flotillathat sought to breach Israel\u2019s 16-year maritime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-472387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115313128836734319","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Moment](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1759538592_399_1920.jpg\")
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Protests erupt around the world as Israel intercepts Global Sumud Flotilla \u2013 video<\/p>\n