Hunger Strike and Defiance: Hanthala Activists Refuse to Sign Deportation Orders

Tel Aviv / PNN /

Israeli sources confirmed on Monday that activists aboard the Hanthala aid ship were interrogated by security officials after being detained, with some announcing a hunger strike in protest of what they described as arbitrary detention. Israeli authorities are expected to deport three of the detainees within hours.

According to Israel’s public broadcaster, the Hanthala ship was escorted to the port of Ashdod on the Mediterranean coast on Sunday afternoon,…