Tunisian participants in the Soumoud Maghreb flotilla returned this Wednesday, October 8, in Tunis on Wednesday, after several days of detention by the Israeli occupation forces. A popular reception is planned at Tunis-Carthage Airport at 4 p.m.
The last 15 Tunisian members of the resistance flotilla, intercepted and then retained by the Israeli army, must land this afternoon at Tunis-Carthage International Airport. The Maghrébine Soumoud flotilla called citizens to a popular and solemn welcome, welcoming the courage of these activists who, according to her, have inscribed “a new page of Arab honor and humanity” by braving the blockade to defend the freedom and dignity of the Palestinian people.
The latest feedback from Jordan
Tuesday morning, between 8 a.m. and 10 a.m. (Amman time), the Jordanian authorities welcomed the last group of Tunisian participants at the Pont du Roi Hussein, composed of fifteen people: Sirin Ghrairi, Fida Athmami, Mouhab Essorms, Mazen Abdelaoui, Louai Charni, Ghassan Kalaï, Khalil Habi, Achraf Khouja, Jihad Ferjani, Nabil Chennoufi, Mohamed Amine Hamzaoui, Yassine Gaïdi, Wael Nouar, Ghassan Henchiri and Mohamed Ali.
This quota was received in the presence of Tunisian diplomatic representatives. The flotilla also had activists from Algeria, Morocco, Libya, Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain, Pakistan, Turkey and the Sultanate of Oman.
Detention and denunciations
The legal team of participants denounced in a press release “the act of piracy” committed in international waters by the Israeli authorities. She condemned the ill -treatment and physical and psychological tortures suffered in the Prison of the Negev (Ketziot), described as “one of the hardest of the occupying entity”.
The Adalah organization, mobilized to defend the participants, was praised for the seriousness of its follow -up despite the strong pressures exerted by the occupation authorities.
A total of 137 participants were released on Saturday October 4 after refusing to appear before an Israeli judge and signed an accelerated procedure. They were transported to Istanbul aboard a Turkish plane. Among them were 28 citizens of the Maghreb, including 10 Tunisians, 6 Algerians, 4 Moroccans, 7 Libyans and 1 Mauritanian.
The first released Tunisian activists – Mohamed Ali Mouheddine, Aziz Meliani, Noureddine Salouej, Abdallah Messoudi, Houcem Eddine Rmadi, Zied Jaballah, Hamza Bouzouida, Mohamed M’rad, Anis Abbassi and Lotfi Hajji – had already returned Sunday October 5.
All of them denounced, on their arrival, arbitrary and illegal detention, claiming that their objective was to alert the international community to the violations of humanitarian law committed against the Palestinian people.
