<article data-history-node-id="423786" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/human-rights-group-says-two-crew-madleen-now-solitary-confinement-israel" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/human-rights-group-says-two-crew-madleen-now-solitary-confinement-israel" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Human rights group says two from Madleen boat in solitary confinement in Israel</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Two of the crew members from the&nbsp;Gaza-bound aid boat the Madleen,&nbsp;have been placed in solitary confinement in Israel, reported AFP on Wednesday.</p> <p>Human rights group Adalah, which is representing most of the crew from the Madleen, released a statment saying that both&nbsp;Thiago Avila and&nbsp;European Parliament member Rima Hassan had been transferred to solitary confinement on Wednesday.</p> <p>"Israeli authorities transferred two of the volunteers - the Brazilian volunteer Thiago Avila and the French-Palestinian European Parliament member Rima Hassan - to separate prison facilities, away from the others, and placed them in solitary confinement."&nbsp;</p> <p>The Madleen was intercepted and forced to abort its mission to deliver aid to Gaza in international waters by the Israeli military on Monday.</p> <p>When asked for comment, Israel's prison authority referred AFP to the foreign ministry, which said it was checking its reports.</p> </div> </div> </article>

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Friday that children in the Gaza Strip are