Mariana Mortágua, coordinator of the Left Bloc (BE), actress Sofia Aparício and activist Miguel Duarte are the Portuguese who make up the humanitarian flotilla to Gaza and were detained by the Israeli Navy, which this Wednesday, October 1, began to intercep vessels from Global Sumud Flotilla.
“The information we have is that All Portuguese who participate in the humanitarian mission were intercepted and detained by the Israeli authorities “confirmed Fabian Figueiredo, from the Left Block, in statements to SIC Notícias, stressing that The arrests “are deeply illegal”. “We are talking about a humanitarian mission that proposed to deliver the first need, food and medicines in Gaza,” he said.
For Fabian Figueiredo, “now it is the time of all states that are linked to the international law to act, to demand the immediate release of all members of the humanitarian flotilla and to start a process of application of sanctions to all those responsible, political and military, Israeli by genocide in Gaza.”
The President of the Republic has already assured that “all consular support” will be assured to the Portuguese detained by the Israeli authorities.
In a note released on the presidency’s website, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has known that “confirmed with the government, which will be assured, through our Embassy in Telavive, all consular support to the compatriots detained, as a rule, and in particular when implies holders of sovereignty organs, as well as all support for return to Portugal.”
The sister of the BE Coordinator, Joana Mortágua, said that the Portuguese “are incommunicable” and that the Portuguese government must have been applying sanctions to Israel for a long time.
“Mariana, as much as I saw as much as we know, was directly until the Israeli authorities had all mobile phones to water,” Joana Mortágua said in statements to RTP3.
