“This is an unlawful abduction, in direct violation of international law and basic human rights,” the flotilla said.

Overnight on Wednesday, Israeli soldiers raided more than a dozen boats carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, blocked the ships’ communications, and abducted over 400 volunteers from 47 countries, including American labor leader Chris Smalls, according to the Global Sumud Flotilla. During the raid, Israeli forces attacked volunteers with water cannons and doused them with “skunk water,”…

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  • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    high seas piracy.

    this is proof that states are useless. if they can’t defend their own people from a genocidal rogue state in the heart of the Mediterranean, then they are all useless.