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Greta Thunberg says she is being held hostage by Israel in cell infested with bedbugs (www.theguardian.com)

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Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian.

According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown.

In an email sent by the Swedish foreign ministry to people close to Thunberg, and seen by the Guardian, an official who has visited the activist in prison said she claimed she was detained in a cell infested with bedbugs, with too little food and water.

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[+] echo@lemmy.tf -38 points 4 months ago

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[-] JillyB@beehaw.org 29 points 4 months ago

nothing happens other than some news stories.

Well that's not true. The flotillas are forcing Israel to very publicly show that they don't allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. We just had a wave of countries recognize Palestine as a state. She has helped destroy Israel's perceptions worldwide. This is like saying Rosa Parks should've just not gotten on the bus. Getting arrested is the point of the protest.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

A nation's territorial Waters? When did they do that?

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 19 points 4 months ago

It was a nation's territorial waters. Weirdly, the ones who arrested aren't the people whose waters they were in. 🤔🤔🤔

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 4 months ago

After getting boarding illegally by Israeli forces and taken to Israel

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 4 months ago

And what would those be, exactly?

[-] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They were abducted while in international waters. They were sailing toward Palestinian national waters off the coast of Gaza. Nobody has a right to stop anyone from entering Palestinian territory except the Palestinians.

This was not a symbolic protest. It was a humanitarian mission delivering aid to a civilian population that is being starved and genocided under an illegal blockade.

[-] pierre_delecto@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

yeah but I assume the alternatives you'd consider acceptable wouldn't make the news, because it wouldn't threaten the status quo.

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