Friday, October 03, 2025

4 Diddies!

Why can't Donald J. Trump, Rupert Murdoch or Elon Musk catch a fate like Sean "Puffy" Combs? They seem to be on the white side of the law. Diddy gets a near nickel in.

Sean "Puffy" Combs, the former media mogul and rapper learned his fate. He will petition for an appeal. The former Bad Boy Records and Revolt TV CEO has been sentenced by a federal judge in his procurement conviction.

Combs was sentenced Friday to four years and two months in prison for transporting people across state lines for sexual encounters, capping a sordid federal case that featured harrowing testimony and ended in a forceful reckoning for one of the most influential figures in hip-hop.

Since Combs has already served a year in jail, the sentence means that the 55-year-old could get out in about three years. While prosecutors sought a sentence of more than 11 years, his lawyers wanted him freed immediately and said the time behind bars has already forced his remorse and sobriety.

Combs was convicted in July of flying his girlfriends and male sex workers around the country to engage in drug-fueled sexual encounters in multiple places and over many years. However, he was acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering charges that could have put him behind bars for life.

“Why did it happen so long?” U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian asked as he handed down the sentence. “Because you had the power and the resources to keep it going, and because you weren’t caught.”

Combs' children plea to the judge for mercy.

Subramanian, who also fined Combs $500,000, the maximum allowed, praised the accusers who testified at trial. They effectively spoke for countless others who experienced abuse, the judge said: “You gave them a voice. You stood up to power.”

Combs, sitting at the defense table, looked straight ahead as the judge spoke. He remained subdued afterward and appeared dejected, with none of the enthusiasm and smiles he displayed while interacting with his lawyers and family earlier in the day.

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” he said to his family right before leaving the courtroom.

Combs’ lawyers said they’ll appeal.

“What we feel today is that the judge acted as a 13th juror, one we did not choose, and that he second guessed the jury’s verdict,” defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo told reporters after leaving court.

Before sentencing, Combs wept as his defense lawyers played a video portraying his family life, career and philanthropy, and he went on to make a plea for leniency.

“I ask your honor for a chance to be a father again,” Combs said, “a son again ... a leader in my community again ... for a chance to get the help that I desperately need to be a better person.” He apologized to the people he hurt physically and mentally with his “disgusting, shameful” actions, and said the domestic violence was a burden he would carry for the rest of his life.

Combs sobs as he learns his sentence.

His nearly two-month trial in a federal court in Manhattan featured testimony from women who said Combs beat, threatened, sexually assaulted and blackmailed them. Prosecutor Christy Slavik told the judge Friday that sparing Combs serious prison time would excuse years of violence.

“It’s a case about a man who did horrible things to real people to satisfy his own sexual gratification,” she said. “His currency was control. And he weaponized that currency to devastating effects on the victims.”

Combs was convicted under the Mann Act, which bans transporting people across state lines for any sexual crime. Defense attorney Jason Driscoll argued Friday the law was misapplied.

During testimony at the trial, former girlfriend Casandra “Cassie” Ventura told jurors that Combs ordered her to have “disgusting” sex with strangers hundreds of times during their decade-long relationship. Jurors saw video of him dragging and beating her in a Los Angeles hotel hallway after one such multiday “freak-off.”

“While nothing can undo the trauma caused by Combs,” Cassie’s attorneys, Douglas Wigdor and Meredith Firetog, said in a statement, “the sentence imposed today recognizes the impact of the serious offenses he committed.”

Another woman, identified as “Jane,” testified she was pressured into sex with male workers during drug-fueled “hotel nights” while Combs watched and sometimes filmed.

Bad Boy 4 Life.

Combs’ lawyers argued at trial that the government was trying to criminalize consensual, if unconventional, sexual tastes.

The only accuser scheduled to speak Friday, a former assistant known as “Mia,” withdrew after defense objections; Slavik accused Combs’ attorneys of “bullying” the woman. She has accused Combs of raping her in 2010 and asked the judge in a letter for a sentence that reflects “the ongoing danger my abuser poses.”

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Six of Combs’ seven children addressed the judge, pleading for mercy for their father. One daughter, D’Lila Combs, said she feared losing her father after the death of her mother, Kim Porter, in 2018.

“Please, your honor, please,” D’Lila said through tears, “give our family the chance to heal together, to rebuild, to change, to move forward, not as a headline, but as human beings.”

Outside the courthouse, journalists and onlookers swarmed, echoing scenes from Combs’ trial.

Sade Bess, a Combs fan from Brooklyn, left the court’s overflow observation room looking both sad and relieved.

“It’s devastating to see a pioneer of the Black community’s legacy nearly diminished,” she said. “But the judge showed mercy by giving him a second chance, while still honoring the victims.”

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Robert Morris Got A Sweetheart Deal!

Not a Black man. Not a Muslim. Not an immigrant. Not a leftist. A white man who preached morality while molesting children had close ties to our sexual predator president being held accountable.

Remember, we are not a Christian nation. We are a country of many religions, languages and cultures. If anyone tells you anything less, ignore them.

A former mega church pastor is now a sexual predator. He was an ally to the 45th/47th President of the United States. He is a morbidly obese white man who took advantage of a shy preteen who had a crush on him in the 1980s. He used his religion, his cunning nature and white privilege to sexually assualt her.

Now she managed to take on her accuser and won.

But according to the far right, all the sexual assault and violent crimes are caused by Black men. 

Is Charlie Kirk available for comment on Black criminality?

Nevermind.

Robert Morris, the Texas megachurch pastor who built Gateway Church into one of the largest congregations in the country, pleaded guilty Thursday in Osage County District Court to charges that he sexually abused a girl in the 1980s.

Morris, 64, entered the plea before Judge Cindy Pickerill, admitting to five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child. Under a negotiated plea agreement, he was given a 10-year sentence, but he will serve only six months in the county jail. He must also register as a sex offender and pay $250,000 in restitution.

Morris was handcuffed and taken into custody after Thursday's hearing.

Cindy Clemishire, the woman who accused Morris of molesting her at age 12, sat in the courtroom, surrounded by family, as Morris accepted responsibility — a moment she sought for decades.

The plea represents a remarkable fall for Morris, who founded Gateway in 2000 in Southlake, Texas, and grew it into a megachurch with tens of thousands of weekly attendees. His sermons were broadcast to audiences around the world, his books became bestsellers in evangelical circles, and he served as a faith adviser to President Donald Trump.

Did you know sexual abuse victims still voted for Trump despite his history of sexual abuse?

That career collapsed in June 2024 after Clemishire, 55, publicly accused him of sexually abusing her. Within days, Gateway announced that Morris was stepping down. In a statement at the time, Morris acknowledged what he described as “a moral failure” with a “young lady” decades earlier but didn’t respond to the specifics of the allegation.

Clemishire told NBC News the abuse began on Christmas night in 1982, when she was 12 and wearing flowery pink pajamas. Morris, a traveling evangelist in his early 20s who sometimes stayed with her family in Oklahoma, invited her to his room, where, she said, he instructed her to lie on her back. He then touched her breasts and felt under her panties, she said — the first of several similar encounters that would span the next few years. “Never tell anyone about this,” Clemishire recalled him saying. “It will ruin everything.”

She kept the secret until 1987, when she told her parents and leaders at her church. Morris went through what he later described as a “restoration process” in the late 1980s before he returned to ministry. Nobody called the police, Clemishire said.

Years later, in the mid-2000s — after Morris had risen to national prominence — Clemishire approached him and leaders of Gateway Church, seeking $50,000 in restitution to recover what she’d spent processing her childhood trauma in therapy, records show. In 2007, Morris’ lawyer at the time wrote a letter suggesting Clemishire bore responsibility for the “inappropriate behavior” between her and Morris when she was a child, according to a copy of the message reviewed by NBC News. Morris offered to pay $25,000, but the talks fell apart, Clemishire said, because she wasn’t willing to sign a nondisclosure agreement.

After decades of roadblocks, a family friend encouraged Clemishire to go public last year. She shared her story with The Wartburg Watch, a blog focused on exposing stories of abuse in churches.

Only in America, a white preacher who sexually abused a woman when she was a teen gets less than a year in the iron college. Our president the very definition of white privilege is dismantling our country while in cognitive decline.

After Morris resigned, the Oklahoma attorney general’s office opened an investigation. In March 2025, a multicounty grand jury indicted him on the five felony counts, charging that he had abused Clemishire from 1982 to 1985. Prosecutors argued that Oklahoma law allowed them to pursue the case despite the passage of decades, pointing to a frontier-era provision that pauses the clock on the statute of limitations when a defendant moves out of state.

At his first court appearance in May, Morris pleaded not guilty and was released on a $50,000 bond. Last month, he waived his preliminary hearing, a signal that his defense team and prosecutors were engaged in plea negotiations. Those talks culminated Thursday with Morris’ guilty plea.

In a prepared statement, Clemishire told Morris in court his abuse “rippled into every part” of her life, straining relationships, damaging her marriages and affecting the way she raised her children. She said she prayed that God helped him to understand the depth of the pain he inflicted.

Morris eyes were fixed on the table in front of him as Clemishire, speaking through tears, faced him during her remarks.

“Let me be clear,” she said. “There is no such thing as consent from a 12-year-old child. We were never in an ‘inappropriate relationship.’ I was not a ‘young lady’ but a child. You committed a crime against me.”

Clemishire 's 82-year-old father silently wept as she spoke. Her sister, Karen Black, also testified, sharing how the abuse shattered every member of their family — grief compounded by decades of watching Morris rise to celebrity.

"You pretended to be holy, preaching from big pulpits," Black told him in court. "As you hid behind your facade, we’ve known you are nothing but a predator."

This is America.

As he was being led away in handcuffs, Morris turned to his wife, Debbie, and their children: "Love y'all," he said.

The guilty plea is the latest development in a case that has reverberated far beyond rural Oklahoma. In November, Gateway Church announced it had removed four elders after an investigation by an outside law firm concluded some had known about Clemishire’s allegations years ago but failed to act. Earlier this year, Morris sued Gateway seeking millions in retirement benefits, alleging the church mishandled his resignation and damaged his reputation. Gateway has denied Morris’ claims, saying in a statement that his demands “do not reflect accountability for the impact of his actions on the community.” The lawsuit is pending.

The scandal drew national attention as an example of how decades-old allegations of child sex abuse can be prosecuted. Advocates for survivors point to Clemishire’s story as evidence of how victims often wait years to come forward and why civil and criminal statutes of limitation should be eliminated in cases of child sex abuse.

After Clemishire spoke out, she heard from numerous women from across the country who said they, too, had been victims of child sexual abuse at the hands of trusted religious leaders. Her disclosure inspired some to go public with allegations for the first time. In one such example, several women accused their former children’s pastor, Joe Campbell, of molesting them in the 1980s in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri — allegations uncovered in an NBC News investigation and documentary in May. Campbell didn’t respond to requests for comment.

For Clemishire, Thursday’s plea represented a long-awaited acknowledgment of the trauma inflicted on her as a child.

“Today marks a new beginning for me, my family and my friends who have been by my side throughout this horrendous journey,” Clemishire told Morris in court, a defiant tremor in her voice.

“Robert, I want you to see me clearly: I am no longer the silenced little girl you abused.”

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Thursday, October 02, 2025

Black Republican Calls Black Women Dance Squad The Faces Of Ozempic!

Black women talent is always valued. Why do these folks got a problem with it?

A Black Republican band leader had to apologize after he made a fat shaming sexist remark about a rival dance and cheerleader squad. 

The attacks on Black women.

A longtime band announcer for Florida A&M University referred to the Honey Beez, a plus-size dance team from Alabama State University, as the “face of Ozempic” during a Sept. 27 football game, he issued an apology for his ill-received comments.

"Friendly competition and playful jesting have long been a part of HBCU [Historically Black Colleges and Universities] band culture, but I have come to understand that my words crossed a line," Bullard wrote on Facebook Sept. 29, according to the Tallahassee Democrat. "My intention was never to belittle or disrespect the incredible young people who represent our schools with such grace, talent and pride.”

He added, “They are the embodiment of our culture, and they deserve nothing less than our full respect."

Can't these motherfuckers keep Black America (especially Black women) out their conversations?

In a video of Bullard’s remarks found online, the crowd audibly booed the announcer over what he referred to in his apology as “lighthearted banter” about the dancers needing the popularized weight loss drug. 

"I now recognize that they came across in a way that was hurtful and disrespectful," the emcee continued. "For that, I extend my deepest and most heartfelt apologies: first and foremost to the ASU Honey Beez, to Alabama State University, to the Alabama State University Marching Band, to Florida A&M University and to the fans and supporters of both institutions who were in attendance, or anyone else who heard my words.” 

While sharing his “hope that we can continue to move forward together,” he concluded, “To anyone who was offended, I am truly sorry."

On the day of Bullard’s comments, Florida A&M’s president Marva B. Johnson condemned the announcer’s “offensive remark” with a strongly-worded statement. 

“I extend my deepest and sincerest apologies to the Honey Beez, the Mighty Marching Hornets, [ASU] President Quinton Ross, and the entire Alabama State University community,” Johnson shared in the Facebook statement. "The Honey Beez represent discipline, school pride, and their performance tradition is respected across the nation. To have their dedication and artistry diminished by a thoughtless comment does not reflect the values or the respect we hold for our colleagues at Alabama State University or for the broader HBCU community.”

Johnson noted the university is “taking immediate steps to ensure accountability” and “prevent incidents like this in the future.”

This is what MAGAland does. They cannot and will not mind their own business.

Joe Bullard (right) was pulled from the announcer booth.

Y'all voted for chaos and you got it. Black Americans who didn't vote for President Donald J. Trump are keeping our heads down and not trying to get involved in the noise.

Republicans bank on culture wars as well as divide and conquer. They are worthless even in power. With majorities in Congress, the White House and state governments, they still ruin everything for an imaginary sky deity. They want to push anti-Black policies under guise of Black empowerment through conservatism.

We are not trying to hand the Democrats a free pass either. They need to clean house on Zionists, racists, homophobes and Islamophobes. The Democrats are unpopular too.

The last seven nationally televised mass shootings were done by white men. Only one mass shooting that got national coverage involved a Black man.

Charlie Kirk minions are appearing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities to stir up controversy. They literally trying to push for Trump to cut funding because their feelings were hurt. 

Black and white students attend HCBUs. But you cannot tell that to MAGAland.

Since that white nationalist was assassinated in Utah in September, the far right has taken their frustrations out on the left. Not the white shooter. Not the state governor and lawmakers who allowed guns on college campuses. Not the federal lawmakers who refuse to do something about gun violence. They lowered flags on behalf of a white man who made a living on divisiveness.

Did you know that Congress passed a honorary on Kirk? 

He would have been 32 on October 14th. They aligned it to irony. George Floyd was born on October 14th. He would have been 52. 

So I will honor George Floyd on October 14th.

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For $7,000 You Can Promote Israeli Propaganda!

They will do anything for a buck. Even promote propaganda on behalf of a genocidal apartheid ethnostate.

Desperate times calls for desperate measures. 

The Israeli regime is pushing algorithms on TikTok, X and YouTube to push a positive image of an already crumbling narrative.

Wikileaks revealed that when regime leader Benjamin Netanyahu came to the United Nations and the White House, he met with social media influncers.

Netanyahu and the Israeli operatives are pushing hard on the content. They are literally gaslighting issues to Black content creators, those in the LGBTQ community and even secular Muslims.

  • Did you hear about how Black Palestinians are living in ghettos?
  • Did you hear about how Hamas is throwing gay people off buildings?
  • Did you know about the IDF solider who is a practicing Muslim?
  • Did you know that Qatar and Iran are paying these protesters?
  • Did you know Greta Thunberg was seen in a photograph with a Hamas official?

This is the verbal garbage Israel is promoting on social media. Some of these folks are buying this as verified while the rest of us are smelling bullshit.

The Esther Project sponsored by the The Bridge Partners for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is shelving out $7,000 for pro Zionist content. 

Lucrative investment on the blood of millions.

I guess Brad Parscale is working for that mollah. The former Trump campaign official had registered as a foreign agent in September.

I maybe surviving a chaotic Trump presidency and times are rough for millions of Americans, my ethics are crystal clear, I will not sell out to a partisan directive promoted by a foreign ally or adversary.

Leaked documents published by WikiLeaks and confirmed through filings with the U.S. Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) reveal that the Israeli government is paying American social media influencers up to $7,000 per post to promote pro-Israel content.

The campaign—managed by Bridges Partners LLC and coordinated via Havas Media Group Germany—is part of a $900,000 budget allocated for recruiting and training over a dozen influencers.

According to Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Responsible Statecraft, the initiative aims to shape public opinion amid growing backlash over Israel’s military operations in Gaza.

This effort is one arm of a broader foreign influence strategy launched after Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar secured a twentyfold increase in Israel’s global PR budget, raising it to $150 million in late 2024, as reported by The Jerusalem Post.

Documents also show that Israel pays $1.5 million per month to U.S. digital strategist Brad Parscale, former campaign manager for Donald Trump, to generate AI-driven pro-Israel messaging at scale.

Souless.

Parscale registered as a foreign agent under FARA in early 2025, according to Mediaite and MSN News.

Public reaction has been swift. Critics on social media and independent outlets have called the campaign a “public bribe” aimed at manipulating U.S. discourse and deflecting attention from alleged war crimes in Gaza, now entering their third year.

Further controversy erupted after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with pro-Israel influencers in New York during his visit to the UN General Assembly in September 2025.

Attendees included Debra Leah, Lizzy Savetsky, Emily Austin, Shay Zabo, Hannah Faulkner, The LatinxZionist, and Dania Avner, as confirmed by JTA and The Jerusalem Post.

Netanyahu emphasized the strategic importance of social media, calling platforms like TikTok and X “the most important battlegrounds” for shaping global opinion.

Meanwhile, a September 2025 poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College found:

  • 51% of U.S. voters oppose sending more aid to Israel
  • Support for Palestinians rose to 35%, while support for Israel fell to 34%—a reversal from 2023
  • 68% of voters under 30 oppose further aid
  • 58% say Israel should halt military operations even if hostages remain
  • 40% believe Israel is deliberately targeting civilians—up from 22% in 2023

This marks a dramatic shift in American public sentiment and raises urgent questions about the ethics and legality of foreign-funded influence campaigns targeting domestic audiences.

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Those Evil Israelis Attack The Global Flotella!

Israel seizes the global flotellas on the mission to save Gaza.

Israel has violently seized the international flotellas fleet peacefully trying to deliver goods to the illegal blockade around Gaza.

Will some country finally use its military to dismantle Israel?

This is an act of war by Israel.

Americans Are Tired Of The Status Quo.

The Resistance Must Stop Israel!✊️🇵🇸 🇮🇷 🇾🇪 🇮🇶 🇵🇰 🇹🇷 🇪🇬 🇨🇳 🇯🇵 🇪🇸 🇮🇪 🇱🇧 🇹🇳 🇮🇩 🇦🇫 🇰🇪 🇶🇦 🇿🇦 🇯🇴 🇴🇲 🇱🇾 🇳🇪 🇳🇬 🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇯🇲 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 🇳🇿 🇰🇷 🇨🇳 🇪🇸 

Israel 🇮🇱 Will Be Destroyed. ☠️☠️☠️☠️

This 🇮🇱 And Zionism Will Be Regarded As A Symbol Of Evil In The 21st Century.

A civil war is looming in the United States.

A global war is happening as we speak. Russia, Israel and the United States will never follow international law or order. It is time for Americans to hold our lawmakers and the president accountable.

Israel is seizing a series of flotellas in international waters which is producing outrage globally.

Israel had time to push well they are Hamas as the reason to invade.

They claim that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is associated with Hamas and even provided "proof" to social media. 

Israeli naval forces boarded most of the vessels in a flotilla attempting to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza on Thursday and detained dozens aboard, including European lawmakers, drawing widespread condemnation.

The Global Sumud Flotilla was the largest yet to try to break the blockade, and it comes at a time of growing criticism of Israel’s conduct in Gaza, where its offensive has laid waste to wide swaths of territory and killed tens of thousands of people.

Activists had said they hoped that the sheer number of boats would make it more difficult for Israeli authorities to intercept them all — but Israel’s Foreign Ministry declared the operation over on Thursday afternoon.

Widespread protests

Supporters of the flotilla took to the streets in several major cities after news of the interception broke — including in Rome; Istanbul; Athens, Greece; and Buenos Aires, Argentina — to decry the Israeli operation and the ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip.

In the northern Italian city of Bologna, dozens of protesters and university students scuffled with police outside the city’s central train station. Police in riot gear used batons to push back the protesters who were trying to occupy the train station and chanting “Free Palestine” and “Shame on you”. Italy’s largest union called for a one-day general strike on Friday.

The flotilla, which started out with more than 40 boats and nearly 450 activists, was carrying a symbolic amount of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Its main goal, they said, remained “to break Israel’s illegal siege and end the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people.”

Israel’s Foreign Ministry dismissed it as a “provocation,” saying that various countries have offered to deliver the aid the boats were carrying. Israel has come under intense criticism for how much aid it lets into Gaza and how it distributes the goods. It has vehemently denied it is committing genocide.

The organizers of the flotilla said at least 39 of their boats were intercepted or assumed intercepted in a nightlong Israeli operation. Israeli authorities later said only one boat remained “at a distance” and would be intercepted if it approached.

The flotilla has streamed its voyage online via live cameras aboard different boats, though connections were lost as Israeli authorities began boarding them in international waters on Wednesday evening.

Flotilla route

Alleged drone attacks

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200 miles

An ongoing war and an even longer blockade

The Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, triggered this war. Militants killed some 1,200 people that day, while 251 others were abducted. Forty-eight hostages are still held in Gaza — around 20 believed to be alive.

Israel’s ensuing campaign has killed more than 66,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not differentiate between civilians and militants in its toll. The ministry, which is part of the Hamas-run government and whose figures are viewed by experts as the most reliable estimate, has said women and children make up around half the dead.

Israel has maintained varying degrees of blockade on Gaza since Hamas seized power in 2007, saying it is necessary to contain the militant group. Critics deride the policy as collective punishment.

After the war started, Israel tightened the blockade but eased up later under U.S. pressure. In March, it sealed the territory off from all food, medicine and other goods for 2 ½ months, contributing to Gaza’s slide into famine.

The flotilla said it wanted to establish a humanitarian corridor by sea, given the little aid that was reaching Gaza by land.

Israel has threatened violence against Greta Thunberg and others.

Activists and European lawmakers detained

Israeli forces detained and removed dozens of people — including Greta Thunberg, former Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau and European Parliament member Rima Hassan — from the flotilla.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry posted photos and videos of some of the activists detainees saying in a statement on X that they were “safe and in good health” and would be transferred to Israel for deportation.

Earlier, live broadcasts from the activists showed Israeli boats approaching their vessels, spraying them with water canons and flashing bright lights before troops boarded the flotilla.

Anticipating the interceptions, activists wearing life jackets sat in circles and raised their hands in the air. Some managed to stream the moment live from their cellphones before tossing their devices into the sea.

Many decry flotilla’s interception

Turkey, Colombia, Pakistan and others condemned Israel’s interception of the flotilla.

Italy, France, Poland and other European nations, which had warned the activists not to continue the journey and avoid confrontation with Israel, said they were working with Israeli diplomatic authorities to ensure their citizens were transferred to land and deported home swiftly.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, one of Israel’s staunchest allies, on Thursday slammed Italian unions for their decision to call a general strike on Friday in solidarity with the flotilla.

“I continue to believe that all this brings no benefit to the Palestinian people. On the other hand, I understand that it will bring a lot of problems to Italian citizens,” Meloni told reporters upon her arrival in Copenhagen for a summit.

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry described the interceptions as an “act of terrorism” and a severe breach of international law in a statement late Wednesday.

The detention of activists was part of Israel’s “ongoing aggression,” the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said, adding that Israel’s blockade of Gaza had caused “immense suffering” for more than 2 million Palestinians in the strip.

Israel has argued its actions constitute a lawful naval blockade needed to prevent Hamas from importing arms, while critics consider it collective punishment of Palestinians in Gaza.

Whether the blockade is militarily justified is a point of contention. But the flotilla argues they are a civilian, unarmed group and that the passage of humanitarian aid is guaranteed under international law.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro announced late Wednesday that his government would expel Israel’s diplomatic delegation in the South American country and terminate a free trade agreement with Israel over the interception. Two Colombian citizens are taking part in the flotilla.

Petro has repeatedly described Israel’s siege of Gaza as an act of genocide, something Israel vehemently denies.

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