Israel is moving Greta Thunberg and 170 other activists from the Gaza flotilla

Israel expelled Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and 170 other pro-Palestinian activists who were detained when Israeli forces intercepted a flotilla trying to rape her Gaza naval blockage to provide help last week.

Thunberg raised his fist while she was presented with flowers and applauded by dozens of supporters who had gathered at Athens Airport.

The Israeli Foreign Minister said that activists had been transported by plane to Greece and Slovakia, and that Greek, Slovak, French, Italian, British and American citizens were among them.

He also once again rejected the accusations of “false news” that the activists were mistreated and refused fundamental rights during detention.

So far, the ministry has announced the deportations of 341 of the 479 people who were on board the 42 boats of the Flotilla Global Sumud (GSF).

The other 138 activists remain in detention in Israel. More than 40 years were confirmed on hunger strike on Sunday, according to the GSF.

He said the objective of the flotilla was to “break the illegal seat on the Gaza by the sea, to open a humanitarian corridor and to put an end to the genocide during the Palestinian people”.

He also said that interceptions have violated international maritime and humanitarian law.

The Israeli authorities have said they had applied a legal blockade and qualified the Flotilla as “advertising” because it only transported two tons of aid in total.

The Ministry of Greece of Foreign Affairs said that Thunberg was one of 161 citizens of 16 European countries who were put forward on Monday in Athens after being expelled by Israel. Slovakia said that it had received 10 other people on a separate flight.

Upon his arrival in Athens, the Swedish activist told journalists that the GSF had been “the greatest attempt ever attempted to break the illegal and inhuman seat of Israel”.

“It was a story of global and international solidarity, of people who intensified when our governments failed to do so, of people saying that:” My so -called leaders – who were supposed to represent me, who continue to fuel a genocide, death and destruction – they do not represent me. This is a last resort. That this mission must exist is a shame. “”

“I could speak very, for a very long time about our ill-treatment and abuse of our imprisonment, believe me, but that’s not history,” she added.

Lawyer Rafael Borrego on Sunday evening was part of a group of expelled Spanish activists who told Madrid airport journalists that they had undergone “physical and mental violence”.

“They beat us, dragged us along the ground, blindfolded us, tied our hands and our feet, put us in cages and insulted us,” he said.

On Sunday, nine Swiss nationals who returned to Geneva also complained of what they called the “inhuman conditions of detention and humiliating and degrading treatment”, the reuters news agency quoted a statement as said.

The Declaration of the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry insisted on the fact that the legal rights of Flatilla militants “were and will continue to be fully maintained”.

“The lies they divided are part of their campaign of pre-plane news,” he said.

The ministry said the only violent incident occurred when a Spanish citizen bit a medical worker in Ketziot prison following a routine medical exam before her expulsion on Monday. The doctor suffered minor injuries, he added.

GSF boats made Barcelona sail at the end of last month after experts in the classification of the UN integrated food security phase (IPC) confirmed that there was a famine in Gaza City and warned that it could spread in the center and south of Gaza in a few weeks.

The Ministry of Health managed by Gaza said that at least 460 Palestinians died of the effects of malnutrition since the start of the war, including 182 since the declaration of famine.

The UN called Israel to urgently raise the blockade on Gaza and to allow the entry of vital equipment by all possible means.

He said that as a occupying power, Israel is forced under international law to ensure that sufficient food and medical supplies reach the Gaza population.

Israel insisted that it acts in accordance with international law and facilitates the entry of aid.

He also challenged the IPC’s conclusions and the figures from the Ministry of Health, and firmly denied allegation – more recently made by a United Nations commission of inquiry – that his forces committed a genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.

The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the attack by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, during which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

At least 67,160 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the Ministry of Health of the Territory.