Israel has begun deporting hundreds of activists from an aid flotilla that was intercepted en route to the Gaza Strip, the Adalah rights organisation says as criticism mounted over the treatment of the participants detained in Israel.
Adalah said all participants in the international Gaza Sumud Flotilla have been released from prison in Israel and were on their way to be deported, most of them from Ramon Airport in the south of the country.
The activists - including 11 Australians - were all deported from Israel on Thursday, the Israeli foreign ministry said.
