By IWU-FI press
September 2, 2025. Israel announced that it will treat the crew members of the international flotilla that left Barcelona taking humanitarian aid to Gaza as “terrorists.”
Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir presented the Israeli government with a plan to halt the Global Sumud Flotilla. The plan requires moving crew members to Ketziot and Damon’s maximum-security prisons. Authorities will deny activists any privileges such as television, radio, and special meals.
Argentinian national deputy Juan Carlos Giordano from Socialist Left and the Left Front-Unity, who is part of the international flotilla, addressed the threats from aboard the “Sirius” vessel, which is sailing the Mediterranean Sea toward Gaza: “What the Zionist Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said is outrageous. We are not terrorists, we are delivering humanitarian aid to a people suffering genocide. If anyone uses terrorist methods, it is precisely the State of Israel.”
Giordano concluded: “We call on all democratic institutions and people who defend human rights around the world, and in Argentina in particular, to be alert and condemn the threats to put us in maximum security prisons. We hold Israel’s genocidal government and NATO liable for anything that happens to the flotilla.”
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