‘Taken against our will': Greta Thunberg speaks out after being deported from Israel

Greta Thunberg has arrived in France after she was deported from Israel.
The Swedish activist was en route to Gaza in a boat carrying humanitarian aid supplies when it was intercepted earlier this week, and Israel's naval forces detained her and 11 others onboard the vessel.
She claims her fellow activists are still in Israel and is unaware of their condition.
'We were illegally attacked and kidnapped by Israel and taken against our will to Israel, where we were detained, and then some of us deported, some are still there,' Ms Thunberg said.
'This is yet another violation of international right, adding to the list of countless of such, especially to Palestinians.'

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Elder, who was recently in Gaza, said he had many testimonials of women and children injured while trying to receive food aid, including a young boy who was wounded by a tank shell and later died of his injuries. A lack of public clarity on when the sites - some of which are in combat zones - are open is causing mass casualty events, he added. The route near Netzarim has become dangerous since the start of a new US-backed aid distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), witnesses told Reuters, with desperate Gazans heading to a designated area late at night to try and get something from aid supplies due to be handed out after dawn. The route has also been used by aid trucks sent by the United Nations and aid groups, and people have also been heading there in the hope of grabbing bags off trucks. UNICEF said GHF was "making a desperate situation worse." 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