OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli occupation forces (IOF) have detained the Qatari TV network's correspondent Othman Al-Battiri and cameraman Mansour Al-Ibbi along with the crew of the spirit of humanity boat in Ramle prison without determining a date for deporting them to their countries.

Al-Jazeera said on Saturday that Battiri confirmed in a telephone contact that their fate was not clear, adding that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) exercised psychological pressures on them.

He said that the IOA asked them to sign a document stipulating that they have "illegally" entered Israel but they all refused to sign, stressing that the IOF soldiers had kidnapped them.

Crime against humanity
Richard Falk, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, said in a statement in Geneva that the detention of the boat was "illegal", and described the three-year Israeli siege of Gaza Strip as a "crime against humanity".

Falk underlined that Cyprus had searched the boat before its departure in response to Israeli demands to look for weapons.

The international and popular committees to break the siege have called for pressuring Israel into the immediate release of all passengers and crew of the spirit of humanity boat.

The European committee to lift the siege has called on all human rights and international groups to stage sit-ins before Israeli embassies in Europe in solidarity with the detainees and to demand their immediate release.