Israeli authorities reported this Thursday the detention of about 175 activists, among whom are about thirty Spanish citizens, who were traveling on boats of the Global Sumud Flotilla intercepted at dawn in international waters south of Greece, about a thousand kilometers from the coast of the Gaza Strip and Israel.
"Approximately 175 activists from more than 20 ships of the flotilla of condoms are now calmly heading to Israel," the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated in a message disseminated on social media, after assuring hours earlier that "condoms and drugs" were found on one of the boarded vessels.
The Ministry has also released a video in which "activists are seen having a good time on board the Israeli ships", without specifying the nationality of the arrested persons, who are reportedly being transferred to an Israeli port.
For its part, the Global Sumud Flotilla has denounced that "it is estimated that there are about thirty people with Spanish passports kidnapped by Israel", and has stressed that the boats that have not been boarded "are in Greek waters or heading towards them".
"We recall that the Israeli contact and subsequent boarding of the flotilla ships occurred more than a thousand kilometers from the coast of Gaza," the organization added.
The flotilla had previously indicated that Israeli forces who boarded dozens of its boats in the Mediterranean "disabled their engines" and left the crews trapped "due to the proximity of a massive storm", something they described as "a death trap".
The current flotilla continues the initiative of which it was boarded in international waters by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in October 2025, shortly after the threshold reached just four months earlier by the ship 'Madleen', also intercepted by Israeli troops, was surpassed.