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Update: I will no longer be updating this thread. New Information will be coming soon undoubtedly.

(01:40 GMT) Israel does not have authority over Gaza waters

A video obtained by Al Jazeera shows a uniformed officer telling the people on board the Madleen there are other means for delivering aid, before the ship was intercepted. “If you wish to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, you’re able to do so through the port of Ashdod,” the uniformed officer says. “We have established channels and distribution centres.” However UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese told Al Jazeera this is not accurate. “Israel has no authority over Gaza. This is the thing. Israel needs to end the siege.” “The people of Gaza need to be helped.”

(01:23 GMT) Israeli MFA says Madleen being taken to Israel’s Ashdod port

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that Israeli authorities intercepted the Madleen. “The “selfie yacht” of the “celebrities” is safely making its way to the shores of Israel,” the ministry said in a post on X. The post accused “Greta and others” of attempting “to stage a media provocation whose sole purpose was to gain publicity” claiming sufficient aid has reached Gaza in the past two weeks. However Israeli forces have repeatedly fired on Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza after allowing some food to return to the strip following its longest ever total blockade. Dozens of people have been killed while trying to reach aid distribution sites, including at least 13 Palestinians on Sunday alone.

(01:00 GMT) ‘If you see this video, we are being intercepted and kidnapped’

Greta Thunberg has shared a pre-recorded video appealing for international help. “My name is Greta Thunberg, and I am from Sweden,” Thunberg said in the video recorded on board the Madleen, before tonight’s events. “If you see this video, we are being intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel,” she said. “I urge all my friends, family and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others as soon as possible.”

(00:50 GMT) Francesca Albanese says she lost contact with Madleen

As we’ve been reporting, the support crew for the Madleen say that communications on board the ship have been cut. UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese also says she has lost contact with the ship. “I heard the soldiers speaking while the captain was on the phone with me,” says Albanese. “I lost connection with the captain as he was telling me that ‘another boat is approaching’.”

(00:40 GMT) Madleen crew told to throw phones over board

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has shared a video showing the crew in the moments before the ship was intercepted by Israeli forces. The crew sat wearing life vests, with their hands in the air and threw their phones in the water.

(00:25 GMT) Crew’s eyes were burning after white substance dropped on Madleen

Here’s more from Huwaida Arraf, the co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement, which is supporting the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. “Just moments ago, communication seemed to be cut,” Arraf told Al Jazeera from Sicily. “So, we have lost all contact with our colleagues on the Madleen.” “Before that, we know that they had two drones hovering above them that dropped some kind of chemical on the vessel. We don’t know what that chemical was,” she said. “Some people reported that their eyes were burning. Before that, they were also approached by vessels in a very threatening manner.” So at least for the last hour, hour and a half, they have been threatened by Israeli forces.” “The last we saw, were able to hear from them, they were surrounded… by Israeli naval commandos and it looked like the commandos were about to take over the vessel.”

(00:21 GMT) Israeli forces intercept the Madleen, cut off comms

Contact has been lost with the Madleen after Israeli commandos intercepted it in international waters. They demanded that everyone on board turn off their phones, and we have lost contact with Al Jazeera Mubasher journalist Omar Faiad as well as our live feed. International Solidarity Movement co-founder, Huwaida Arraf, confirmed that they have also lost contact with the Madleen.

(00:12 GMT) Drones drop white paint on Madleen as comms jammed

The Gaza Freedom Flotilla says that quadcopters have surrounded the Madleen and are “spraying it with a white paint-like substance”. “Communications are jammed and disturbing sounds are being played over the radio,” the flotilla said in a post on Instagram.

(23:45 GMT) Two drones hovering over the Madleen

The crew on board the Madleen is now taking cover as two drones are hovering overhead, says UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. “Two drones over the Madleen. They say they are quadcopters, the dangerous ones. TEAM IS TAKING COVER,” Albanese wrote on X.

(23:30 GMT) ‘Psychological warfare’ as two boats remain in front of Madleen

Speaking to Al Jazeera from on board the Madleen, Yasemin Acar, says that four vessels approached the ship and that two remain nearby. “We are very close to Gaza, approximately 100 miles away,” she said. “We sounded the alarm because we saw exactly four vessels approaching us all at the same time, two of which had blue lights,” she said. “We had many lights suddenly surrounding us, and the four vessels suddenly just stopped.” Acar added that two of the boats came as close as 200 meters from the Madleen before leaving, while the other two vessels remain nearby. “Two of them are still right in front of me, they just stopped,” she said. “We are reason to believe that this is psychological warfare.” “It’s just a way of intimidating us and a way to make us turn back and not tried to challenge the illegal blockade on Gaza.”

(23:15 GMT) Francesca Albanese says Madleen ‘calm and safe now’

The UN Special Rapporteur on the the Occupied Palestinian Territories has said “all looks calm and safe now,” after alarms earlier sounded on board the Madleen. “I just spoke again with the Flotilla, [including] its [Communication] Room in Catania”, Albanese said in a post on X. “All looks calm and safe now. Speedboats watching; but the flotilla continues its sailing.” “It will be a long night. And as they say and we say, ‘we are together’.”

(22:58 GMT) Freedom Flotilla Coalition says surrounding boats have left

In an audio message on the coalition’s Telegram, activist Thiago Avila has said the boats that surrounded the Madleen have now left. “This, unfortunately, has been a very unlikely false alarm. we have been surrounded by many lights all at once. And they were circling our boat, but in the end, they kept going their own way,” he said. “Could be IOF (Israel occupation forces) vessels, but in this case they just left and we don’t know,” he added. “We’re not sure.”

(22:40 GMT) ‘The IOF is here right now, please sound the alarm’

A video posted by Eye on Palestine shows Brazilian activist Thiago Avila wearing a life jacket. “The IOF is here right now, please sound the alarm. We are being surrounded by their boats,” he said in the video. “Yes this is an interception, a war crime is happening right now,” he said.

(22:35 GMT) UN rights expert says Israeli speedboats surrounding Madleen

In a post on X, Francesca Albanese said that she is in contact with the Madleen crew as they are now surrounded by Israeli vessels. “They have just been reached by the Israel speedboats – 5 vessels circling the flotilla,” Albanese said. “The captain is instructing the team to stay calm and seated, with their passports and life jackets on.” “I hear them speaking with Israeli soldiers as I type… telling they are carrying humanitarian aid and go in peace. For the time being they are just circled. I am with them, recording everything.”

(19:35 GMT) Israel planning to intercept Madleen tonight

The Israeli Haaretz newspaper has reported that Israel’s Navy is planning to intercept Madleen tonight, and will seek to do so as far from the coast of Gaza as possible. The newspaper framed the plan to intercept the Madleen deep in international waters as meant to avoid having to take the vessel by force, saying it will give the crew ample time to turn around. Madleen’s crew has said they remain resolute in breaking the Israeli blockade. Meanwhile, a senior Israeli official told Israel’s Channel 12 that the vessel will be boarded by commandos if it does not turn around and will be taken to Ashdod port.

(16:50 GMT) Thiago Avila, a Brazilian activist on board the Madleen vessel, tells Al Jazeera the boat is currently about 185km (100 nautical miles) off the coast of Gaza.

“We are here to support Gaza and demand an end to the bombing and starvation,” Avila said. “Despite threats, we will continue our journey. The world must stand with us.” He said drones are flying overhead and communication systems had been jammed. “We know Israeli forces are prepared to confront us with weapons, but we are not afraid,” he said. “What we face is nothing compared to what Palestinians in Gaza endure.”

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The #UK is 'currently' hosting & training Israeli terrists from the Iraeli Diaper Farce despite genocide allegations, a Labour minister has admitted....
#LikudLabour #Shameless #WarCrime
#LabourFriendsOfGenocide
#KidStarver #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #IDF

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Gaza’s Hamas-run police force said Thursday that it killed 12 members of the Israeli-backed Abu Shabab militia in Gaza, which said its fighters had killed five Hamas operatives but made no mention of its own casualties.

According to Hamas, the Abu Shabab gunmen were killed early Wednesday by the Gaza police’s Sahm unit, which Hamas says was established to combat looting. The unit released video footage showing several dead men lying in the street, saying they were Abu Shabab fighters who had been detained and killed for collaborating with Israel. It was not possible to verify the images or the claims around them.

Abu Shabab has been operating in an Israeli-controlled area of southern Gaza’s Rafah. Israel confirmed last week that it was arming the militia to bolster opposition to Hamas.

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Gaza (Quds News Network)- The Gaza Strip has plunged into a complete internet and communication blackout after Israeli attacks severed the last remaining fiber-optic line, the Palestinian Telecommunications Regulatory Authority announced on Thursday.

The authority confirmed that fixed-line internet and telecommunication services are now entirely cut off across Gaza, including the central and southern regions, which have now joined the digital silence already imposed on Gaza City and the north for the past two days.

“This is the result of systematic attacks on Gaza’s already fragile telecom infrastructure,” the authority said in a statement. Technicians have tried multiple times to repair and reroute damaged lines, but Israeli restrictions have blocked all efforts.

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"Dear Tereza,

I’m sorry for not being around these past days, but Daddy was trying to bring food to other children as beautiful as you. Unfortunately, they are starving because some people don’t understand that every human being has the right to freedom.

Your father is one of the millions of people doing something to end the greatest violation of rights of our generation.

I truly hope to come home soon. I think of you and your mother every day. And that is why I cannot accept that the world we live in has so much exploitation, oppression, and destruction.

Do not be afraid for your father. I am okay and hopeful."

Original, untranslated text and video is available here https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/cidades-df/2025/06/7171140-direto-da-prisao-em-israel-thiago-avila-envia-carta-a-filha.html

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Doubling down on the conflation of Zionism and Judaism won’t stop violent attacks.

[This is a must-read article on the recent killings in DC and the attack on the protest in Boulder, Colorado.]

from Jewish Currents
Daniel May
June 11, 2025

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Adalah Update - 12 June 2025, 13 PM Jerusalem Time
via https://x.com/AdalahCenter/status/1933107350455640426

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Two volunteers, Pascal Maurieras (France) and Yanis Mhamdi (France), remain in custody at Givon prison, ... awaiting their deportation tomorrow, 13 June, afternoon. They will be seen by their lawyers today.

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The six volunteers expected to be deported today or early tomorrow morning are:
Mark [Marco] Van Rennes (The Netherlands),
Şuayb Ordu (Turkey),
Yasemin Acar (Germany),
Thiago Avila (Brazil),
Reva Viard (France), and
Rima Hassan (France).
So far, #Adalah lawyers are facing difficulties visiting them at the airport.
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#Madleen #FreedomFlotilla #BreakTheSiege
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After Denying Massacring Civilians Seeking Aid, Israel Routinely Massacres Civilians Seeking Aid (Caitlin’s Newsletter, 2025-06-11)

https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/after-denying-massacring-civilians
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>> Since May 27, some 160 people have reportedly been killed in massacres at these #GHF sites, which people in Gaza are reportedly beginning to refer to as a “death trap”.

>> But, again, … Israel and its spinmeisters were crying antisemitic blood libel at the very suggestion that #IDF troops would fire upon people trying to obtain food.

>> Even without the CNN report [https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/04/middleeast/israel-military-gaza-aid-shooting-intl-invs], Israel’s own actions since June 1 have proved that Israeli forces do indeed deliberately fire upon starving civilians seeking humanitarian aid. Israel lied. Again.

>> … They’ve been caught lying so many times that there is no reason to take any of their denials seriously.

#CaitlinJohnstone #CrimeAgainstHumanity

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The US is lobbying foreign governments not to attend a UN conference next week sponsored by France and Saudi Arabia on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to a US diplomatic cable reported by Reuters.

The cable, sent to countries on Tuesday, warns them against taking "anti-Israel actions" and says attending the conference would be viewed by Washington as acting against US foreign policy interests.

France, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, is a US ally in Nato. Saudi Arabia is one of the US’s closest Middle East partners.

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The single explosion destroyed more than 4,000 embryos and over 1,000 vials of sperm and unfertilized eggs. Dr Bahaeldeen Ghalayini, the obstetrician who established the clinic, summed up the implications of the attack in an interview with Reuters: “5,000 lives in one shell.”

The strike was an act of reprocide: the systematic targeting of a community’s reproductive health with the intention of eliminating their future. In the context of Israel’s ongoing genocidal war in Gaza, reprocide serves as a tactic. Indeed, genocide includes its definition, “imposing measures intended to prevent births” within a particular national, ethnic or religious group.

The bombing of the IVF clinic was one spectacular example, but as a Palestinian women’s rights activist from Gaza, I have lived and witnessed how Israel uses reprocide within a settler colonial framework that seeks not only territorial domination but demographic erasure—a process that began long before October 7, 2023.

When I was 15 years old, following the Israeli assault on Gaza in 2008–2009, Israeli soldiers began wearing and distributing t-shirts that depicted a pregnant woman in crosshairs above the slogan “1 Shot 2 Kills.” I recall the fear felt by the pregnant women I knew. The t-shirts prompted people around me to recount stories of pregnant women being killed or wounded during other moments of extreme violence in Palestinian history, from the start of the Nakba in 1948 to the Sabra and Shatila massacres in 1982. Underscoring the eliminationist nature of this violence, Israel remains among the world’s leaders in assisted reproduction technology, actively encouraging birth rates among Jewish citizens.

In an effort to trace the effects of reprocide amid Israel’s ongoing genocidal war, between October 2023 and October 2024, I collected ethnographic evidence—voice notes, text messages, emails and phone calls—from those enduring or witnessing reproductive violence. Analyzing their accounts alongside official reports from Gaza reveals the many ways Israel has weaponized reproduction, some more obvious than others: from the direct assaults on reproductive health and infrastructure to the conditions it forces women and men to reproduce under to sexual violence and its role in reproductive erasure.

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Israel deports Greta Thunberg after seizing Madleen, the ship she was on | AP News (2025-06-11)

https://apnews.com/article/thunberg-deported-mideast-gaza-israel-7d6868f213dfcf78969f8e3d982788c6
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Also a video on Youtube --> https://www.youtube.com/live/Hvios9GF4CY

>> Speaking upon arrival in Paris en route to her home country of Sweden, Thunberg called for the release of the other activists who were detained aboard the Madleen...

>> ...The activists were held separately and some had trouble accessing lawyers, she added.

>> Asked why she agreed to deportation, she said, “Why would I want to stay in an Israeli prison more than necessary?”

>> Thunberg called on supporters to ask their governments “to demand not only humanitarian aid being let into Gaza but most importantly an end to the occupation and an end to the systemic oppression and violence that Palestinians are facing on an everyday basis.”..

#Madleen #EndOccupation #StopGenocide
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Where are the #FreeTheHostages people now?

Don't they have empathy for the kidnapped volunteers of #FreedomFlotilla?

Does anyone care about their safety and well being?
#Israel #Gaza #Activism #hostages #Piracy #SanctionIsrael #BDS @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

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Israel is demanding that she signs an illegal deportation order, Even though they were kidnapped on international waters and being held hostage inside Israel.

This is outrageous and sadly not many politicians seem to care protesting it and calling for Israel to be held accountable

#France #FreeTheHostages #FreedomFlotilla #Genocide #Israel #EUpol #EUparliament #SanctionIsrael #Gaza #Genocide #FreeRima

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