Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg will be among the bickering ‘international’ cohort of pro–Palestinian activists to leave Israel on Monday, October 6th, after their Gaza ‘aid’ flotilla was intercepted. Those being released from Israeli detention will be flown to Greece, from where the campaigners of different nationalities will likely fly back to their home countries.
Those flying out of Israel on Monday include 28 Spanish, 28 French, 27 Greeks, 15 Italians, and nine Swedish citizens, as confirmed by some of their respective governments on Sunday.
José Manuel Albares, Spain’s foreign minister, told a press conference:
Today, the group of 28 Spanish flotilla members who remain detained in Israel will leave Israel.
The French, Italian, and Greek foreign ministries also confirmed that their nationals released from Israel would be flown to Greece on Monday, before continuing home.
The Global Sumud Flotilla aimed to break the Israeli security blockade in order to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. However, despite continued international criticism, Israel maintained that its interception of the flotilla was a security necessity, supported by what it described as undeniable evidence of Hamas’s control.
