Climate activist Greta Thunberhg was detained by the Israeli forces on Wednesday as the military boarded several boats of Gaza aid flotilla, carrying foreign activists, and diverted them towards Israeli port, The Guardian reported. This disrupted a protest that was the most high-profile symbols of opposition to Israel's blockade of the enclave. A video from the Israeli foreign ministry, now verified by news agency Reuters, showed Thunberg sitting on a deck surrounded by soldiers. "Several vessels of the Hamas-Sumud flotilla have been safely stopped and their passengers are being transferred to an Israeli port," the Israeli foreign ministry said in a post on X. "Greta and her friends are safe and healthy." The Global Sumud Flotilla, transporting food and medicine to Gaza, has more than 40 civilian boats with about 500 parliamentarians, lawyers and activists. According to the flotilla's own ship tracking data, as many as 13 boats had been intercepted as on early Thursday. A defiant group of organisers issued a statement saying the flotilla "will continue undeterred".
