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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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[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 58 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 28 points 20 hours ago

Death to the zionist entity and the states who support it.

[-] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 116 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 82 points 22 hours ago

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.

[-] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 17 points 22 hours ago

Strong sense of morality of autistic people stays winning

[-] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 22 hours ago

If it beats out the desire for a clearly structured world or the „revenge of the nerd“ fantasies.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago

Autism is a land of contrasts

[-] zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

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.

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 16 points 1 day ago

She has never once limited her commitment to human life - let her be remembered for her dedication to saving life.

[-] redchert@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 22 hours ago

People will never miss the chance to tear down a woman’s look and dismiss her work. Its a constant of nature.

[-] sarcasticsunrise@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Jaximus@lemmy.ml 23 points 22 hours ago

Probably a bot, the Internet is infested at this point. Head over to reddit and half the comments sound the same...

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago

There's certainly a new wave of pro-israeli comments I'm seeing lately.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 20 hours ago

Can hope it's a bot but so many true believers popping up or have just been around.

Especially when anything is critical of the west or dems

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 20 hours ago

somewhere on my blocklist that's where

[-] krimson@lemmy.world 123 points 1 day ago

Fuck the terrorist state of Israel.

[-] nfreak@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 day ago

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

[-] whereyaaat@lemmings.world 3 points 4 hours ago

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."

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Bing bong theorum

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 hours ago
[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Also, but the US are currently more usefull, in Germany it will affect too much nearby countries which have nothing to do with it, also the territory is too small.

[-] krimson@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] Jaximus@lemmy.ml 6 points 21 hours ago

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.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

They make me wish there was such a thing as hell

[-] antifa_ceo@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago

We can make on hell on earth happen for them with enough support. Inshallah.

[-] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago

🤲

🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻

But it won't be properly hell without zios there.

Greta has a backbone of pure steel.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 18 hours ago

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

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 22 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Anytime I see a headline worded in such a way as to snidely cast doubt on the subject of zionist inhumanity, i go "bet it's a br*tish paper" and I'm always right.

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago

the Zionist entity must be destroyed

[-] zululove@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago

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

[-] whereyaaat@lemmings.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Won't happen. If they killed her, they'd get away with it.

Israel is immune to accountability.

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