Israel stated it deported on Monday, October 6, 2025, 171 extra activists who have been detained whereas collaborating in an assist flotilla certain for Gaza, together with Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg. Photo credit score: X/@IsraelMFA

Israel stated it deported on Monday (October 6, 2025) 171 extra activists who have been detained whereas collaborating in an assist flotilla certain for Gaza, together with Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg.

The Foreign Ministry stated in a put up on X that “171 additional provocateurs from the Hamas-Sumud flotilla, including Greta Thunberg, were deported today from Israel to Greece and Slovakia,” including the deportees have been residents of a number of nations, together with Greece, Italy, France, and the United States.

Mistreatment towards detainees

Nine members of the Gaza assist flotilla arrived residence in Switzerland on Sunday (October 5, 2025) after being deported by Israel, with some alleging they’d been topic to inhumane situations while in detention there, the group representing them stated.

An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson rejected the allegations. The Foreign Ministry has beforehand stated that claims of mistreatment towards detainees are “full lies”. Nineteen Swiss nationals, together with the previous mayor of Geneva Remy Pagani, have been aboard boats within the flotilla of dozens of vessels that attempted to ship assist to Israeli-blockaded Gaza.

They have been taken into custody on Wednesday by Israeli forces who intercepted the flotilla at sea and brought to Israel’s Ktzi’ot jail, in line with the Waves of Freedom flotilla group.

Nine of the group returned to Geneva on Sunday afternoon.

“The individuals condemned the inhumane detention situations and the humiliating and degrading remedy they suffered upon their arrest and incarceration,” an announcement by the group stated. Israel stated on Sunday that the authorized rights of the activists have been being “absolutely upheld”, that no bodily drive was used and all detainees got entry to water, meals, and restrooms.

Published – October 06, 2025 06:41 pm IST