Career protestor and agitator Greta Thunberg was en route back to Sweden on Tuesday after Israeli authorities detained her, alongside several other activists, aboard their Gaza-bound “selfie yacht.”
The 22-year-old, fully named Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg, and her companions refused to view video footage of the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack before they were released, officials said.
According to AFP, among the 12 individuals on board the vessel Madleen, which attempted to sail into Hamas-controlled Gaza, five French nationals remained in custody after declining to leave Israel voluntarily.
Israeli forces intercepted the vessel—operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition—in international waters on Monday, as first reported by Breitbart News. The yacht was then towed to Ashdod port, and its passengers were transferred to Ben-Gurion Airport for departure arrangements, according to Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
Defense Minister Israel Katz explained that he ordered IDF officials to show the activists “the full, unedited footage of the October 7 attacks as recorded by Hamas terrorist body cameras.”
Katz told GB News, “Greta and her flotilla companions were taken into a room upon their arrival to the screening of the horror film of the October 7 massacre… when they saw what it was about, they refused to continue watching.”
He continued: “The anti-Semitic flotilla members are turning a blind eye to the truth and have proven once again that they prefer the murderers to the murdered and continue to ignore the atrocities committed by Hamas against Jewish and Israeli women, adults, and children.”
Representing Israel’s Foreign Ministry, officials confirmed on X (formerly Twitter) that “Greta Thunberg just departed Israel on a flight to Sweden (via France),” accompanied by an image showing her aboard the aircraft.
Regarding the five French activists, France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot stated that one agreed to leave Israel voluntarily and was expected to return home the same day. The remaining five were undergoing formal deportation proceedings.
“Our consul was able to see the six French nationals arrested by the Israeli authorities last night,” Barrot said on X. “One of them has agreed to leave voluntarily and should return today. The other five will be subject to forced deportation proceedings.”
{Matzav.com}
