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Greta Thunberg detained after Israeli military diverts several aid boats of Gaza-bound flotilla | World News

insidetrack IndiaOctober 2, 2025

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Climate activ Greta Thunberhg was detained the Israeli forces on Wednesday as the military boarded several boats of Gaza aid flotilla, carrying foreign activs, and diverted them towards Israeli port, The Guardian reported.
This disrupted a protest that was the most high-profile symbols of opposition to Israel’s blockade of the enclave.
A video from the Israeli foreign minry, now verified news agency Reuters, showed Thunberg sitting on a deck surrounded soldiers.
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“Several vessels of the Hamas-Sumud flotilla have been safely stopped and their passengers are being transferred to an Israeli port,” the Israeli foreign minry said in a post on X. “Greta and her friends are safe and healthy.”
The Global Sumud Flotilla, transporting food and medicine to Gaza, has more than 40 civilian boats with about 500 parliamentarians, lawyers and activs.
According to the flotilla’s own ship tracking data, as many as 13 boats had been intercepted as on early Thursday. A defiant group of organisers issued a statement saying the flotilla “will continue undeterred”.

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