TEL AVIV: Israel said it deported on Monday 171 more activists who were detained while taking part in an aid flotilla bound for Gaza, including Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg. The foreign ministry said in a post on X that "171 additional provocateurs from the Sumud flotilla, including Greta Thunberg, were deported today from Israel to Greece and Slovakia". It added that the deportees were citizens of several countries, including Greece, Italy, France and the United States.
Photos shared with the post showed Thunberg alongside two other women walking through Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport wearing the grey tracksuits used in Israeli prisons. The 45-vessel flotilla had been aiming to break an Israeli blockade to deliver aid to Gaza, where the United Nations says famine has taken hold after two years of devastating conflict. International activists who arrived in Istanbul after being deported from Israel said on Saturday they had been subjected to violence and "treated like animals". — AFP
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