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.
They were abducted while in international waters. They were sailing toward Palestinian national waters off the coast of Gaza. Nobody has a right to stop anyone from entering Palestinian territory except the Palestinians.
This was not a symbolic protest. It was a humanitarian mission delivering aid to a civilian population that is being starved and genocided under an illegal blockade.