Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Lena Zochiou in today’s informing of diplomatic editors stressed, inter alia, that the ministry is closely monitoring developments with the lofting off Gaza.

“Our priority is the safety of the citizens,” said Zochiou, referring to the Israeli resalto on the Greek ship “Oxygen”, which participated in the Global Sumudilla Sumudilla mission to Gaza.

Mrs Zochiou stressed that Greek citizens are good in their healthnoted that there is constant communication with our embassy in Tel Aviv and The ambassador of our country to Israel will go to the place where the 27 Greek citizens are located.

As he said, the Foreign Ministry made protests on the Israeli side and raised the issue of safeguarding the protection of Greek citizens, and reminded that a joint statement was issued yesterday by the Greek and Italy Ministries of Foreign Affairs, calling on the protection of the participants.

Ms Zochiou said that there was no violence by the Israeli forces, noting that all actions in Israel would be taken to provide the necessary consular assistance, and added that “a record of checking and expulsion of those involved in the ornate” would follow.

He also said that Mr Gerapetritis is in contact with his Israeli bond while he made it clear that our relationship with the Israelwith which “we have a strategic partnership and we want to maintain”.

Forens

The 27 Greeks participating in the mission of the “Global Sumudilla Sumudilla”, heading towards the warrior of Gaza, are in good health and it does not appear that there was violence against them. According to an information from the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the ships of the decoration, accompanied by Israeli ships, safely, at the Ashdod port, followed by the recording and expulsion procedures by the occupants, a statement from the Foreign Ministry said.

“Our Ambassador to Tel Aviv will go to the place where Greek citizens are located. Both in the past few days and today, the Greek Foreign Ministry has made protests on the Israeli side, raising the issue of protecting Greek citizens involved in the mission.

In cooperation with other countries, citizens of which are involved in the mission and are in Israel, the actions will be taken to Israel and consular assistance will be provided, ”the statement concludes.