The Zionist authorities deported Tunisian ex-president Moncef Marzouki and European parliament member Ana Miranda on Monday after they took part in a flotilla seeking to defy its Gaza blockade

The Zionist authorities deported Tunisian ex-president Moncef Marzouki and European parliament member Ana Miranda on Monday after they took part in a flotilla seeking to defy its Gaza blockade, an official said.

“The (former) president of Tunisia and the Spanish lawmaker flew this morning. There are another 14 who have begun the expulsion process,” a spokeswoman for ‘Israel’s immigration authority’ told AFP.

The occupying entity had on Monday commandeered the Swedish-flagged Marianne of Gothenburg, part of the Freedom Flotilla III, and accompanied it to the port of Ashdod.

Sixteen foreign nationals were on board along with Arab 48 lawmaker Basel Ghattas and an Israeli television reporter. The lawmaker and the reporter have been released, though Ghattas could face a parliamentary hearing on whether he should face sanctions.

The Marianne was part of a four-boat flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists who had been seeking to reach the Gaza Strip to highlight the Israeli aggressive blockade of the territory that they called “inhumane and illegal”.

The three other boats had turned back before the Marianne was boarded by the Israeli navy in an operation that took place without the deadly force that marred a raid to stop a similar bid in 2010.