Libya launches expulsion process for detained Summud Maghreb humanitarian convoy

On 23 June, Libya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation announced the start of legal and administrative procedures to expel ten members of the Summud Maghreb humanitarian convoy who remain detained in eastern Libya (Benghazi). The convoy, which began in Mauritania about a month earlier, was transporting aid to Gaza with ten trucks, seven ambulances and more than 200 participants, including medical, engineering, logistics and international humanitarian‑law specialists.

Four convoy members were released in recent hours and taken to Tunisia: Achraf Khoja (Tunisia), Domenico Centrone and Dina Alberizia (Italy) and Matías Rodríguez (Uruguay/Italy). The six still held include Argentine nationals Paula Giménez and Lucas Aguilera, U.S. citizen Jenelle Jones, Portuguese Ana Margarida Baptista, Polish Laura Kwoczala and Spanish Alicia Armesto. Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani said the releases resulted from intensive diplomatic work. The remaining detainees await official decisions on the conditions and timing of their departure, while Argentine officials and other groups have called for guarantees of safe repatriation, consular access and medical and psychological assistance.