French-Palestinian EU Parliament member, Rima Hassan, and five other volunteers from Freedom Flotilla's Madleen were deported from Israel on Thursday, June 12, the Israeli foreign ministry confirmed.

French MEP Rima Hassan, who is still being held in an Israeli jail after refusing to sign deportation papers, is demanding the jail provide her with bottled water.

The European lawmaker from France Unbowed, whose parliamentary immunity is not valid outside the EU, was a member of the Freedom Flotilla, which was intercepted by Israeli authorities on Monday. View

RIMA Hassan, member of European Parliament of Palestinian descent, is one of the activists who participated in Freedom Flotilla that set off for Gaza

EU Parliament Member Rima Hassan, who announced a hunger strike yesterday to protest her arrest from the Greta Thunberg 'flotilla,' among the activists deported today.

French-Palestinian Member of the European Parliament Rima Hassan said Thursday that a new aid ship is “almost ready to depart” for Gaza in remarks following her return to Paris after being detained earlier this week by Israeli authorities.

Six of eight activists detained after Israel seized the the Gaza-bound aid ship, Madleen, on Monday have been deported.

Israeli NGO Adalah rights group said on Thursday that six more activists detained aboard a boat attempting to breach Israel's blockade of Gaza were en route to the airport for deportation. French

Israel deports 12 radical left-wing activists who participated in a Gaza-bound flotilla, including climate activist Greta Thunberg and French MEP Rima Hassan. The group was intercepted by naval forces and brought to Ashdod without resistance.