Jerusalem, May 21 -- Israel has released hundreds of activists who attempted to breach its naval blockade of Gaza, with Israeli authorities currently working on their deportation, according to a legal organisation working with the flotilla.
The Israel-based legal advocacy group, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, or Adalah, said Thursday that most of the international activists were in transit to a civilian airport near the southern Israeli city of Eilat for deportation, reports Times Of Israel.
Releasing a statement Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he has instructed officials that the activists be deported "as soon as possible," after briefly criticising the country's national security minister Ben...