President Claudia Sheinbaum demanded the immediate repatriation of the six nationals who were arrested while participating in the Sumud Global Fleet, which headed to Gaza with humanitarian aid.
“In particular, the nationals have to be repatriated immediately, because they did not commit any crime,” said the president during her morning press conference.
Sheinbaum said they were sent from “three days ago four diplomatic notes” to the Israeli government.
The first one, abounded, was to request the physical guarantees of the Mexicans detained, the second to know the reasons in case they were intercepted, the third to demand their integral physical security and a fourth to ask for the “immediate repatriation.”
The Sheinbaum’s reaction occurs after Wednesday the Israeli government intercepted the flotilla that sailed from Barcelona on September 2 to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza.
In total 50 vessels and around 500 activists from 48 countries make up the Sumud Global Fleet. The Israeli Foreign Ministry reported that several flotilla ships have been “arrested without problem” and that their passengers are being transferred to an Israeli port.
The president said that the six Mexicans, previously identified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs such as Sol González Eguía, Arlín Gabriela Medrano, Carlos Pérez Osorio, Diego Vázquez Galindo, Ernesto Ledesma Arronte and Laura Alejandra Vélez Ruiz Gaitán, are held in the port of Ashdod.
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Sheinbaum stressed that Mexicans ‘did not commit any crime’
He explained that consular staff has not yet achieved access to them.
“What the Israeli authorities say is that they will take them to a detention center. It is our consulate there to be able to support them in what is required and demanding that they immediately be repatriated,” he said.
Sheinbaum stressed that Mexicans “did not commit any crime,” because their goal was merely humanitarian and pointed out that “humanitarian aid has to reach Gaza.”
The president also condemned the action of the Israeli government. “We do not agree with what the state of Israel did” and recalled that the country has maintained an active position in international forums.
“We were from the first countries that we filed a complaint in The Hague and we are monitoring it,” he said, while indicating his government has fully recognized the Palestinian State, including the opening of the embassy in Mexico.
Sheinbaum added that the Mexican consulate will continue to demand “that they immediately release them” and requested that the arrival of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave “be stopped” that this harassment against Gaza is stopped. “
An independent Commission of the UN, human rights rapporteurs, NGOs and a growing number of countries qualify the Israeli military offensive against the enclave, in which more than 65,200 Palestinians have already died, including more than 19,000 children.
With EFE information.
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