Overview

• Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the priority is the safe return of Spanish participants and that the government will consider actions after assessing whether international law was breached.
• Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares reported that a first group of Spaniards disembarked in Ashdod, where the consul general and two Civil Guard officers are providing assistance.
• Spain has extended diplomatic protection, activated consulates in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Nicosia, created a monitoring unit, and summoned Israel’s chargé d’affaires to protest the detentions.
• The government said it had warned flotilla members not to enter the Israeli-declared exclusion zone because a Spanish naval vessel could not intervene, but the convoy proceeded.
• Vice President Yolanda Díaz demanded immediate releases and called the operation a crime under international law, and Sánchez said the flotilla posed no threat to Israel.