Former Barcelona mayor Ada Colau, who was sailing aboard a vessel from the Global Sumud Flotilla, is hugged as she arrives at the city's airport on Sunday. Photograph: Lluis Gene/AFP via Getty Images
Sixteen Irish citizens detained by Israel during the interception of the global sumud flotilla have been released and “are on their journey home”, the Tánaiste Simon Harris has said.
Some of the Irish citizens have told lawyers representing them how they suffered “aggressive treatment and violence” in Israeli custody, including being kicked when trying to sleep, and are now being kept in a notorious desert prison.
Lawyers from Adalah, a legal centre that defends Palestinians in Israel, have met and represented 10 out of the 16 detained Irish citizens since they were taken from th
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