{"id":152772,"date":"2025-06-09T14:15:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/piracy-world-reacts-to-israels-seizure-of-gaza-bound-aid-vessel-madleen-al-jazeera\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T14:15:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:15:20","slug":"piracy-world-reacts-to-israels-seizure-of-gaza-bound-aid-vessel-madleen-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/piracy-world-reacts-to-israels-seizure-of-gaza-bound-aid-vessel-madleen-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Piracy\u2019: World reacts to Israel\u2019s seizure of Gaza-bound aid vessel Madleen – Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"

Governments and NGOs condemn Israel\u2019s interception in international waters of the ship, which sought to bring attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.<\/em>
Israel has intercepted a Gaza-bound aid ship<\/a>, preventing the 12 activists on board, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, from reaching the blockaded Palestinian territory.
Israeli forces \u201cforcibly intercepted\u201d the Madleen in international waters overnight about 100 nautical miles (185km) from Gaza, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition NGO said in a statement on Monday. Al Jazeera lost contact with the vessel at 7:00 GMT.
Apart from Thunberg, those taken into custody by Israel are Palestinian French Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan, Baptiste Andre, Pascal Maurieras, Yanis Mhamdi and Reva Viard from France; Thiago Avila from Brazil; Suayb Ordu from Turkiye; Sergio Toribio from Spain; Marco van Rennes from the Netherlands; Yasemin Acar from Germany; and Omar Faiad, a journalist with Al Jazeera Mubasher, also from France.
Israel has detained the crew for \u201cinterrogation\u201d.
Here\u2019s how the world has reacted:
The interception of the Madleen is a \u201cflagrant violation of international law\u201d, Hamas said in a statement, calling for the activists on board to be released and saying it holds Israel \u201cfully accountable for their safety\u201d.
\u201cIsrael has no legal authority to restrict access to Palestine since such is within the exclusive right of the Palestinian people,\u201d said the rights organisation Al-Haq, which is based in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
\u201cThe assault on this flotilla, since it happened in international waters, is considered a form of piracy under international law,\u201d said Esmaeil Baqaei, a spokesman for Iran\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Israel\u2019s interception of the Madleen is a \u201cclear violation of international law\u201d that \u201conce again demonstrates that Israel is acting as a terror state\u201d, Turkiye\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
President Emmanuel Macron \u201chas asked that our six French nationals be allowed to return to France as soon as possible,\u201d said the Elysee Palace in a press release. \u201cWe have asked to be able to exercise our consular protection over them\u201d and to \u201cvisit them\u201d, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot added.
Spain has summoned Dan Poraz, charge d\u2019affaires at the Israeli embassy in Madrid, reported the Spanish newspaper El Pais and Al Jazeera Arabic, quoting a source at Spain\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Jewish Council of Australia has expressed \u201cgrave concerns for the activists on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla\u201d and called \u201con the Australian government to urgently intervene to secure the immediate release of the vessel and safety of the crew\u201d.
\u201cWe strongly condemn the cowardly and illegal Israeli attack on the Madleen as it approached Gaza with desperately needed humanitarian supplies,\u201d the Council on American-Islamic Relations said. \u201cWe applaud Greta Thunberg and the other activists of the Madleen who bravely risked their safety and freedom to help the starving people of Gaza.\u201d
Israel\u2019s seizure of the Madleen \u201coutside Israeli territorial waters\u201d is a \u201cblatant violation of international law\u201d, said The Left, the European Parliament faction that Hassan belongs to. \u201cThe arrest of the crew members and the confiscation of aid intended for a population in immediate humanitarian distress is unacceptable and is clearly part of a wider strategy to starve and massacre Palestinians in Gaza while hiding Israeli war crimes from the world.\u201d
\u201cMadleen must be released immediately,\u201d United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese said. \u201cBreaking the siege is a legal duty for states and a moral imperative for all of us. Every Mediterranean port should send boats with aid, solidarity and humanity to Gaza. They shall sail together \u2013 united, they will be unstoppable.\u201d
\u201cAs the occupying power (as recognised by the ICJ [International Court of Justice]), Israel has a legal obligation to ensure civilians in Gaza have sufficient food and medicine. They should have let Madleen deliver its humanitarian supplies to Gaza,\u201d said Agnes Callamard, secretary-general of Amnesty International, asserting that Israel\u2019s interception of the Madleen \u201cviolates international law\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Governments and NGOs condemn Israel\u2019s interception in international waters of the ship, which sought to bring attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.Israel has intercepted a Gaza-bound aid ship, preventing the 12 activists on board, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, from reaching the blockaded Palestinian territory.Israeli forces \u201cforcibly intercepted\u201d the Madleen in international waters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}