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(cont.) There are clear laws on enforcing blockades – Israel’s interception of the #Madleen raises serious questions (The Conversation, 2025-06-10)
>> Naval blockades are not automatically illegal. … a blockade may be used in wartime, but only if five legal conditions are met:
• it must be formally declared and publicly notified
• it must be effectively enforced in practice
• it must be applied impartially to all ships
• it must not block access to neutral ports or coastlines
• it must not stop the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians.
>> If even one of these conditions is not met, the blockade may be considered illegal under customary international humanitarian law.
Watch their appeals on official YouTube_short:
https://www.youtube.com/@freedomflotillacoalition6166/shorts
#FreedomFlotilla #Madleen
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe
“SOS! the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces”
Contact your government and embassies of Germany, France, Brazil, Turkey, Sweden, Spain, and The Netherlands for their safety.
List of the volunteers:
Yasemin Acar – Germany
Baptiste Andre – France
Thiago Avila – Brazil
Omar Faiad – France
Rima Hassan – France
Pascal Maurieras- France
Yanis Mhamdi – France
Şuayb Ordu – Turkey
Greta Thunberg – Sweden
Sergio Toribio – Spain
Marco Van Rennes – The Netherlands
Reva Viard – France
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cf. https://x.com/GazaFFlotilla/status/1931888550162903357 et al.
Tunisian Ultras Join Convoy to Break Israeli Siege on Gaza (Morocco World News, 2025-06-07)
>> As the Freedom Flotilla’s “#Madleen” approaches the shores of Gaza, a Tunisian-led convoy sets out to confront Israel’s humanitarian blockade by land.
>> Tunisian football #ultras are taking part in ... the “Resilience Convoy,” which is set to depart #Tunisia on Monday, June 9, with plans to reach Gaza through Libya and Egypt.
>> The convoy is being organized by the Coordination for Joint Action for Palestine ...
#Maghrib #BreakTheSiege
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe
4/4 ‘Madleen’ Responds to Mayday for Refugees at Sea
The individuals rescued had fled violence and persecution in Sudan, only to face further violence, detention, and torture in Libya. They must be brought to a safe country where they can seek asylum—a country that upholds its international obligations, including the principle of non-refoulement.
Rima Hassan, a Member of the European Parliament aboard the Madleen stated: “We denounce the European Union’s role in obstructing the movement of asylum seekers, in clear violation of international law—an approach that has led to the deaths of tens of thousands and turned the Mediterranean into a graveyard.”
The crew of the Madleen is in communication with Search and Rescue NGOs, who are advising and assisting them, while calling on the Greek, Italian, and Maltese authorities to urgently fulfill their legal obligation to organize a safe rescue and transshipment of the refugees on board to safety in Europe.
3/n ‘Madleen’ Responds to Mayday for Refugees at Sea
... Concern mounted that they would forcibly return the refugees to Libya, in violation of international law. The Madleen‘s crew warned them not to do so, but the Libyan authorities did not respond.
To avoid being taken by the Libyan authorities, four people jumped into the sea and began desperately swimming towards the Madleen. The crew then issued a mayday for itself, calling for urgent assistance, but other vessels remained too far away. The Madleen’s crew rescued the four from the water.
Under international law, the principle of non-refoulement prohibits returning anyone to a country—whether or not it is their country of origin—if they would face a real risk to their life, freedom, or personal safety there. The crew has a moral and legal duty to protect those rescued at sea, especially when they are fleeing grave danger.
2/n ‘Madleen’ Responds to Mayday for Refugees at Sea
Upon approach, the Madleen‘s crew saw that the boat was rapidly deflating, with approximately 30–40 people on board. Given the time-critical nature of the situation, they launched a rescue Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB). While the rescue effort was underway, another vessel approached at high speed. Initially assuming it to be Egyptian––as they were in the Egyptian search and rescue zone––the crew held back, urging the vessel to assist without carrying out a forcible return to Libya, where refugees face detention, abuse, and torture, or transfer to Egypt, which is also not considered safe for asylum seekers.
As the vessel drew closer and sounded an alarm, crew members on the Madleen identified it as a Libyan Coast Guard vessel—the Tareq Bin Zayed, known for grave human rights violations and involvement in previous unlawful pullbacks of asylum seekers...
“All That’s Left is a collective unequivocally opposed to the Occupation and committed to building the Diaspora angle of resistance.”
Zadie Smith and Ian McEwan among 380 writers and groups to call Gaza war ‘genocide’ (Guardian, 2025-05-28)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/28/gaza-letter-genocide-zadie-smith-ian-mcewan
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>> Three hundred and eighty writers and organisations including Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Russell T Davies, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Cottrell-Boyce and George Monbiot have signed a letter stating that the Israeli government’s war in Gaza is genocidal and calling for an immediate ceasefire.
>> “The use of the words ‘genocide’ or ‘acts of genocide’ to describe what is happening in Gaza is no longer debated by international legal experts or human rights organizations,” reads the letter, which was also signed by William Dalrymple, Jeanette Winterson, Brian Eno, Kate Mosse, Irvine Welsh and Elif Shafak…
Stand for Justice with Adalah = The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
https://donate.adalah.org/?lang=en&v=1
via https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/06/16/three-head-home/
>> We [The #FreedomFlotilla Coalition] are grateful to #Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, for their steadfast and professional representation of these detainees, and we call on our supporters everywhere to join us in donating to support their important work.
#Madleen #BreakTheSiege
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