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.

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    Israel is lashing out emotionally now that they’ve lost public support. Pathetic, may the entity crumble to dust and Palestine be free.

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    Greta has been the one to face all sorts of public backlash and moronic criticism for how she looks. I hope that history remembers her work and commitment to saving human life, for the sake of saving human life.

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      History will remember her for being based as hell. Going this hard on Gaza really legitimizes her climate activism as caring about human life. And taking huge personal risks which are not just blocking a highway.

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      the problem is that she is a white, blonde girl with a cool active (I mean lively) personality, it should have nothing to do with looks.

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    Where’s that one dipshit from a couple days ago saying everything Greta was doing was just PR performative bullshit? Yeah, this looks like a brilliant clout scheme she’s concocting here, dumbass

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      There’s no “two state solution” to this shit. The entire country needs to be abolished and the land given back to Palestine.

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        I’ve been saying this for years.

        The proper solution to Israel is to relocate the occupiers to the US, since both countries are pretty much the same, have the same interests, and even engage in the same acts of war.

        The problem with this is that Zionists, who are religious nationalists, feel that they are entitled to their “promised land.”

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        Best solution was proposed by Sheldon Cooper, moving Israel to the US

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        Unfortunately I think it will be the other way around. The “Riviera” thing is going to happen. Israel will be in charge, together with the US.

        There will never be peace though.

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          Even more likely: they displace or kill the entire population and the land and city is left empty for the next century. My case point is northern Cyprus although the scale and brutality of what we are currently witnessing is not comparable.

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    And then one hears that anti semitism is on the rise like never before and one wonders why that is…

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    Maybe they will delete her and we have another martyr. That’s all we need to really push them out our lands tbr.

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      yeah but I assume the alternatives you’d consider acceptable wouldn’t make the news, because it wouldn’t threaten the status quo.

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      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.

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        Unfortunately, I dont think they had to make it to territorial waters or the blockade.

        UNCLOS allows for arrests and impoundment in international waters, once an intent to enter teritorial waters for a prohibited actions has been declared.

        Among those stated prohibited acts are propaganda against that state (Afaict as determined by that state) and the importance of goods in violation of that states laws.

        Im not sure exactlt sure the laws of a blockade, but my understanding is that its similar- once intent to bypass the blockade is announced, the blockading military is free to engage in international waters, not wait for the line to be crossed.

        In both cases, its a dubious claim whether the blockade was legal, or Israel Had the right to claim territorial waters in front of Gaza- but my understanding is both would have needed to be challenged in court to be invalidated, that an official claim is valid until ruled otherwise.

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        It was a nation’s territorial waters. Weirdly, the ones who arrested aren’t the people whose waters they were in. 🤔🤔🤔