Israel’s foreign ministry has said that six people detained aboard a boat while trying to breach Israel’s blockade of Gaza were put on a plane for deportation, AFP reports.

“Six more passengers from the ‘selfie yacht’, including Rima Hassan, are on their way out of Israel. Bye-bye — and don’t forget to take a selfie before you leave,” the ministry wrote on X.

The post was accompanied by photos of Hassan, a member of European Parliament for the hard-left France Unbowed party who is of Palestinian descent, and other deportees.

Adalah, the rights group that legally represented some of the detainees, told AFP that the six detainees — two French citizens and nationals of Brazil, Germany, the Netherlands and Turkiye — had departed Israel.

“While in custody, volunteers were subjected to mistreatment, punitive measures and aggressive treatment, and two volunteers were held for some period of time in solitary confinement,” it said.

All 12 people on board the Madleen have been banned from Israel for 100 years.

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