ROME: Italy has appealed for the release of two Italian pro-Palestinian campaigners detained in eastern Libya who, along with eight other activists, had been refusing food and water for four days.
Israeli forces arrested 430 people on board 50 ships in international waters in May, to halt a flotilla of “Global Sumud Flotilla” volunteers trying to bring aid supplies to the Gaza Strip.
The people held in Libya are part of a separate group of flotilla activists who tried to reach the Palestinian enclave by land.
Authorities in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi were not immediately available for comment.
Italian Consul Filippo Colombo has appealed to those authorities for the release of the two Italian nationals and requested permission to visit them, the Foreign Ministry said.
