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Israel illegally detained UK citizens, and Starmer did nothing

John McEvoy, 9 Oct 25


This week, Israeli forces kidnapped British citizens participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla, which aimed to break the siege of Gaza and deliver aid to starving Palestinians.

The flotilla, carrying some 470 activists from over 40 countries, had been sailing in international waters some 90 nautical miles from Gaza when it was approached by Israeli naval boats and boarded by armed soldiers.

The aid vessels were subsequently towed to the port of Ashdod in Israel, where the activists were unloaded and taken to Israeli prisons. 

Most of them were transferred to the notorious Ketziot prison, a maximum-security facility in the Negev desert which has served as a detention and torture site for Palestinian captives.

The cells were infested with bed bugs, and the activists were deprived of food and water. “We had to drink out of a tap in the toilets that produced water infected with fecal matter”, said British-Palestinian journalist Kieran Andrieu. 

Israel’s national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who travelled to Ketziot and taunted the activists, said they “should get a good feel for the conditions in Ketziot prison and think twice before they approach Israel again”.

This was not the first time that the Global Sumud Flotilla had been attacked by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).

October 11, 2025 - Posted by | Israel, politics international

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