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Greta Thunberg kidnapped on Gaza flotilla; videos show Israeli forces hijacking Madleen (www.hindustantimes.com)

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Greta Thunberg, in a video posted on social media, said she and other members of the Freedom flotilla en-route to Gaza have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. This comes after the Daily Mail reported that several Israeli vessels surrounded the ship Madleen, prompting the crew to raise an alarm.

Thunberg shared a pre-recorded video appealing for international help. “My name is Greta Thunberg, and I am from Sweden,” she said in the clip. “If you see this video, we are being intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel. I urge all my friends, family and comrades to put pressure on the Swedish government to release me and the others as soon as possible.”

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[-] kreskin@lemmy.world 154 points 4 days ago

All they had to do was wait until the boat entered Israeli waters to do it legally. Why do it in international waters? Israelis seem to want to break laws just for the sake of showing they dont consider any laws to matter. In some ways they are worse than nazis. They are like perpetually angry butthurt toddlers with weapons.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 161 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

At no point would the boat enter Israeli waters. Only Palestinian waters.

The illegal Israeli sea blockade is illegal for reason: it is not their water.

[-] lorty@lemmy.ml 80 points 4 days ago

They want to make a point that they don't care about international law

[-] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 39 points 3 days ago

And that they will most likely suffer no consequences from it

[-] RealSpiderLane@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 days ago

Was gonna say, they’ve not been given any reason to care about international law.

Although, I swear I saw that the ICC put out a warrant for Bibi.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

So what? Not all nations care.
Like the UN: nice, noble... toothless.

[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 days ago

You may be right. The whole world is on the brink ,deciding if we will move forward as a global "rule of law" or a global "might makes right" future.

[-] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 days ago

We have always lived under "might makes right". Ask any country that has been under the boot of western imperialism.

This is just the collapse of the charade of "rule of law" as the stranglehold of the western might begins to slip.

[-] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 18 points 3 days ago

there's no "legally" what, they enter Gaza territoral waters, only gaza has authority to regulate it's territorial waters.

Israel has no right to control Gaza's waters.

[-] shadowfax13@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

this country is run and heavily populated with most vile criminals ever to exist

when contemplating about what they are capable of, then think of them as the most disgusting mexican drug cartel not a country of law and human decency.