European leaders avoid commenting on Israel’s actions with the flotilla

Copenhagen.- The leaders of the community summit avoided commenting this Wednesday on the actions of the Israeli government in intercepting the international humanitarian flotilla known as Sumud, which was heading towards the Gaza Strip to try to break the naval blockade imposed on Palestine.

The President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, chose not to assess whether the reaction of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was proportionate to the situation.

“During the Council, I have not received any information, so I cannot comment on this question,” Costa excused himself after being asked by a journalist at a press conference, at the end of the meeting of the heads of State and Government of the Twenty-Seven in Copenhagen (Denmark).

“The same on my part,” assured Von der Leyen, who also participated in the same press conference alongside the Prime Minister of the host country, Mette Frederiksen.

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The Alma ship, from the Global Sumud Flotilla, was intercepted in Mediterranean waters by the Israeli Navy, shortly after activists alerted to the presence of 20 “unidentified” vessels on their radar, Néstor Prieto, a collaborator of the Descifrando la Guerra portal, informed EFE from one of the boats, before being detained.

European leaders will meet again this Thursday in Copenhagen in a second session that will bring together both the Twenty-Seven and another twenty countries from the continent within the format known as the European Political Community (EPC), an event in which they will address the provocations and interference of Russia and its refusal to accept a ceasefire with Ukraine.