The consul of Chile in Tel-Aviv, Jorge Torres Ulloahe went this Friday to the Penitentiary Enclosure of Saharonim, in the town of Kziot, in southern Israel and border with Egypt, for Pay attention to the two Chilean citizens who integrated the humanitarian mission of the flotilla ‘Sumud Global’ and that were arrested together with the rest of the activists by Israeli authorities.
“Regarding the specific consular visit, They decided to accept Sweden’s assistance, considering that both have Swedish nationality (in addition to Chilean) and reside in that country“The Chilean Foreign Ministry said in a brief press release.
Marita rodríguez y Lorena Delgado Varaswhich were integrated into the expedition in Sicily (Italy), were arrested since their vessels, the Aurora and Huga ships, respectively, were intercepted by the Israel army in international waters. The above, for navigating to Gaza with the aim of carrying humanitarian aid and breaking the maritime block to the strip.
Rodríguez and Delgado “thanked Chile’s support and the efforts,” said the note.
Chile recognizes Palestine as a state “free, independent and sovereign”
Chile, which recognized Palestine as a “free, independent and sovereign” state in 2011, during the first government of Sebastián Piñera (2010-2014), houses the most numerous Palestinian community in the world outside the Arab countries, with five hundred thousand people.
In total There were 473 travelers of the Global Sumud Flotilla for the detainees, as the legal team of the expedition reported Fridayalthough it is unknown how many of those people have accepted to be deported immediately and how many not, the two possibilities that the arrested have.
In the first case, they are taken to the airport to take a deportation flight and in the second a judicial procedure opens in which a judge would decide on their deportation, a process that requires more time.
From Wednesday night and for twelve hours, the Israeli Navy approached one by one forty ships that made up the flotilla. The detainees were taken to the Israeli port of Ashdod, where they were signed by the police, before being conducted before the border authorities for the migration procedures.
The majority of those arrested were transferred by buses from the port in question to the Saharonim prison, in the Desert of the Neguev.
As explained to Efe a Flotilla lawyer, this prison was conceived for immigrants in an irregular situation in Israel and has the capacity to house the hundreds of crew of the ships that tried to take help to Gaza.
