Overview

• Israel’s Foreign Ministry called reports of mistreatment "brazen lies," said detainees’ legal rights are respected, and described the flotilla as a provocation serving Hamas.
• Adalah reported accounts of deprivation of food and water, denial of essential medication, blindfolding and shackling, overcrowded cells, and other abuses, with some allegations involving Greta Thunberg.
• Many detainees remain held at Ktzi’ot prison in the Negev, and Swedish diplomats met Thunberg even as Adalah says she has not yet had access to a lawyer.
• Israel has begun expulsions, including 137 activists flown to Istanbul on Turkish Airlines from Ramon Airport, and flotilla organizers reported a deportation flight to Madrid involving additional Europeans.
• Some detainees have launched hunger or thirst protests over medical access, while a recently deported activist urged Brazil to take stronger action for those still in custody.