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Israel said it deported connected Monday (October 6, 2025) 171 much activists who were detained portion taking portion successful an assistance flotilla bound for Gaza, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg.
The Foreign Ministry said successful a station connected X that "171 further provocateurs from the Hamas-Sumud flotilla, including Greta Thunberg, were deported contiguous from Israel to Greece and Slovakia," adding the deportees were citizens of respective countries, including Greece, Italy, France, and the United States.
Mistreatment against detainees
Nine members of the Gaza assistance flotilla arrived location successful Switzerland connected Sunday (October 5, 2025) aft being deported by Israel, with immoderate alleging they had been taxable to inhumane conditions whilst successful detention there, the radical representing them said.
An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson rejected the allegations. The Foreign Ministry has antecedently said that claims of mistreatment against detainees are “complete lies”. Nineteen Swiss nationals, including the erstwhile politician of Geneva Remy Pagani, were aboard boats successful the flotilla of dozens of vessels that tried to present assistance to Israeli-blockaded Gaza.
They were taken into custody connected Wednesday by Israeli forces who intercepted the flotilla astatine oversea and taken to Israel’s Ktzi’ot prison, according to the Waves of Freedom flotilla group.
Nine of the radical returned to Geneva connected Sunday afternoon.
“The participants condemned the inhumane detention conditions and the humiliating and degrading attraction they suffered upon their apprehension and incarceration,” a connection by the radical said. Israel said connected Sunday that the ineligible rights of the activists were being “fully upheld”, that nary carnal unit was utilized and each detainees were fixed entree to water, food, and restrooms.
