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Greta Thunberg, 170 other activists from Gaza aid flotilla deported from Israel
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleLazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and 170 members of the Global Sumud flotilla take off from Ramon International Airport in southern Israel en route to Greece and Slovakia, according to the Foreign Ministry.
Photos shared by the ministry show Thunberg and other deportees making their way through the airport in gray sweatsuits and white t-shirts.
The deportees hail from Greece, Italy, France, Ireland, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Austria, Luxembourg, Finland, Denmark, Slovakia, Switzerland, Norway, the UK, Serbia, and the United States, says the ministry.
Israel insists that “all the legal rights of the participants in this PR stunt were and will continue to be fully upheld,” adding that “the lies they are spreading are part of their pre-planned fake news campaign.”
The only violence, says the ministry on X, came from a Spanish participant who bit a medical staffer at Ketziot Prison.
Thunberg and other detainees have alleged that they were held in unlawful conditions by Israel.
The flights to Greece and Slovakia bring the number of Sumud flotilla activists deported by Israel to 341, with 138 remaining.
The Times of Israel Community.