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.
Seems like there are some great ways to protest that wouldn’t involve traveling into a nation’s territorial waters and getting arrested. This is at least the second time she’s done this and 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.
A nation’s territorial Waters? When did they do that?
It was a nation’s territorial waters. Weirdly, the ones who arrested aren’t the people whose waters they were in. 🤔🤔🤔
After getting boarding illegally by Israeli forces and taken to Israel
And what would those be, exactly?