{"id":38823,"date":"2026-05-26T17:10:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/australias-parliament-holds-a-protest-against-israels-treatment-of-gaza-flotilla-activists\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T17:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:11:01","slug":"australias-parliament-holds-a-protest-against-israels-treatment-of-gaza-flotilla-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/australias-parliament-holds-a-protest-against-israels-treatment-of-gaza-flotilla-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s parliament holds a protest against Israel&#8217;s treatment of Gaza flotilla activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thumbs_b_c_eab7ff3ac9b8bf98e30994064ffa9486.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Activists staged a protest inside Australia&#8217;s parliament on Tuesday against the treatment of members of the Sumud Global Flotilla who tried to send aid to Gaza and called on the Australian government to impose sanctions on Israel, local media reported, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators gathered in Marble Hall, kneeling with their hands behind their backs in a symbolic act meant to portray the detention of flotilla activists by the authorities. of Israel, ABC News reported.<\/p>\n<p>They shouted &#8220;Sanction Israel!&#8221; and accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong of being &#8220;collaborators in genocide&#8221; as security officers escorted them from the building.<\/p>\n<p>The protest comes after a growing controversy over the treatment of activists involved in the flotilla.<\/p>\n<p>Several activists, including Australians, have alleged mistreatment by Israeli authorities, with allegations ranging from beatings to sexual assault during ban.<\/p>\n<p>The issue gained wider attention after Israel&#8217;s Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, posted a video on social media last week in which he appeared to mock banned flotilla activists as officers pushed and dragged some of them, drawing global condemnation.<\/p>\n<p>The protest comes days after the Sumud Global Flotilla said Israel had seized all 50 ships trying to reach to Gaza by sea.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey safely evacuated humanitarian aid volunteers from 41 countries, including 85 Turkish citizens who were part of the flotilla, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said late Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The flotilla, carrying 428 people from 44 countries, had set sail earlier this month from the Turkish district of Marmaris in a new attempt to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza imposed since 2007, which has brought much of the population to the brink of starvation.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Israeli commandos raided the Turkish ship MV Mavi Marmara during a humanitarian aid mission to break the blockade of Gaza, killing 10 Turkish citizens in clashes on board the ship.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activists staged a protest inside Australia&#8217;s parliament on Tuesday against the treatment of members of the Sumud Global Flotilla who tried to send aid to Gaza and called on the Australian government to impose sanctions on Israel, local media reported, Anadolu reports. 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