Genocide

The Mallorcans from the Flotilla are already in Spain and report torture: "We've been robbed, patched up, and humiliated."

They demand the return of Reyes Rigo, the Mallorcan woman accused of biting a prison official in Israel.

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PalmThe Mallorcan activists of the Sumud Global Flotilla expelled from Israel have denounced on Monday night upon their arrival in Madrid that they have suffered "torture" during their detention and have warned that one of their companions, The Mallorcan Reyes Rigo has not yet returned to Spain"Not everyone is here. Reyes Rigo is missing. We're worried about our colleagues who have been left behind. We won't stop until they're released," stated the coordinator of Podemos Islas Baleares, Lucía Muñoz, to the television cameras waiting for them at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport.

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For her part, activist Alejandra Martínez explained that the latest information about Rigo is that she was taken from the room on Sunday night in an episode of "extreme violence." "She was dragged by her hair and taken to solitary confinement. We have not seen her since. She is the only Spanish citizen who has not returned, and we ask the Spanish government to facilitate her return home," she stated.

Furthermore, one of the activists who arrived this Monday in this group of 27 Spaniards stated that they have suffered "low-impact torture" and "degrading" treatment since their arrest. "They robbed us, beat us, humiliated us, tortured us with different underhand techniques... They kept us in a cell outside the prison, on the outside, and the Israeli foreign minister called us terrorists with cameras recording us in a high-security open-air cell," she commented.

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Another activist has reported that they were kept in vans in the sun for four hours to make them very thirsty and then offered bottles of water in front of the cameras to show them "their kindness": "Most of them endured their thirst because we knew it was a trick," she indicated.

In addition, another of the women on the flotilla has specified that they were held for 30 or 40 hours without leaving their rooms, in very high temperatures, in cells crammed with 15 women in less than 20 square meters, without sanitary products for menstruation, without water, food or medicine.

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For his part, the activist Serigne Mbaye has asked the Spanish government to adopt strong diplomatic measures. "We want Spain to break relations with Israel. This is a disgrace. What the government hasn't done, civil society is doing. It should block Israel because what it has committed is genocide. If they've treated us like this, imagine how they're treating the Palestinians, but it's not seen on any camera," she declared.

Yolanda Díaz demands the return of Reyes Rigo

Vice President of the Government and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz, has demanded the return to Spain of Reyes Rigo, from Mallorca. The only Spanish member of the Global Sumud Flotilla remains detained in Israel after being accused of biting a female official at Ketziot prison during a medical examination.

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In an interview in The 1 o'clock hour From TVE, Díaz has stated that she is in constant contact with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, to learn firsthand about the condition of the Spaniards who have returned to Spain after almost a week detained in Israel. "The Spanish government must continue working so that this woman (Reyes Rigo) returns as soon as possible," the vice president of the executive claimed, who also referred to the mistreatment reported to the 49 members of the flotilla after arriving in Spain.

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"We are seeing alleged crimes committed, kidnappings in international waters, mistreatment in international waters. We are talking about international crimes that could, without a doubt, be reported to the International Criminal Court (ICC)," she warned. Díaz also noted that "if there is mistreatment and if there is kidnapping in international waters," they would be "crimes of an international nature" with "purely criminal classification." Therefore, he stressed the need for the Spanish government to take further steps against the "criminal" Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.