The Foreign Minister, José Manuel Albares, reported this Saturday that the Spanish consul in Tel Aviv has been able to contact for the first time with a part of the Spaniards of the Global Sumud Flotilla held by Israel. “Within the circumstances in which they are, they are well,” said the minister in an interview in RTVE. “Tomorrow our consul will move again – today it is not possible, for being Sabat – and will visit them every day until they are released and back in Spain,” he reiterated.
Albares has said that around 50 Spanish and Spanish activists are imprisoned in Tel Aviv, and that the government's priority is “getting free as soon as possible.” “What they transfer us,” said the minister, “is that deportation will be done as quickly as possible, although it is not possible to say a specific term right now.”