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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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[–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 126 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Thunberg and crew are heroes in my eyes. No doubt a very extreme form of political protest, obviously they knew the outcome here. Even they couldn't predict blatant piracy. Hope she is returned safely...

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 189 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Isn't boarding and taking over a ship in international waters piracy?

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 102 points 3 days ago (2 children)

For private citizens yes.

If a nations official forces do it. It is an act of war.

[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 58 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Curious to see how the EU and other European countries will respond. One of the people on board is a EU PM.

Besides Greta the boat had people from many other European countries such as France, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands. There are also a Turk and a Brazilian on board.

I really hope the people on board are safe. They don't deserve this.

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[–] wurzelgummidge@lemmy.ml 102 points 3 days ago

Do either Israel or it's enablers care?

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[–] Korkki@lemmy.ml 120 points 3 days ago (11 children)

"The tiny amount of aid that was on the yacht and not consumed by the 'celebrities' will be transferred to Gaza through real humanitarian channels," the ministry added.

They will toss the aid to the wood chipper and laugh about it, won't they...

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 82 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Quite a thing to create the world's most dire need for humanitarian aid in the history of the species and then criticize any aid as tiny in comparison to the need you've manufactured

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Israel has a reputation for not even following through on these basic minute propaganda gestures. Because they are comically evil.

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[–] Aedis@lemmy.world 51 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Nah they'll actually dangle the food in front of starving people to draw a crowd and then bomb them.

Fucking monsters.

[–] SirQuack@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

It's not a war crime, it was a warning bomb.

Fucking genocidal assholes

[–] JacksonLamb@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

tiny amount of aid

This is like someone with a micropenis criticizing the genitals of a kitten.

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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 163 points 3 days ago (22 children)

Why is everyone so hands off and permissive with Israel? Like they can do nothing wrong when they go out of their way to do wrong things?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 78 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (15 children)

Israel has a huge lobby in most Western countries. And Epstein material on their politicians.

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[–] reaper_cushions@hexbear.net 69 points 3 days ago (5 children)

For Germany: Israel is an indulgence for the Holocaust.

For the USA: Israel is an unsinkable aircraft carrier in a largely hostile region that is protected by international law.

For the rest of Western Europe: They are vassals of the US, so naturally they don’t want to piss of their daddy.

For everyone else: they don’t want to provoke the US either.

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[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 146 points 3 days ago (8 children)

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 154 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 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 77 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] 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.

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

#BringThemHome

Good thing Sweden isn't Israel or else they'd have bombed their hospitals already.

[–] RecipeForHate1@lemmy.ml 106 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Thiago Ávila, a Brazilian activist, was also in that boat and was kidnapped by the Israeli state. That's a crime against humanity.

[–] shadowfax13@lemmy.ml 62 points 3 days ago

they have been murdering activists, journalists, doctors, kids, women, pregnant women for decades. israel was founded by slaughtering entire villages and raping little girls to death.

you thinks these vicious scum care an iota about humanity ?

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[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 50 points 3 days ago (10 children)

Of course idf kidnaps a kid

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just want to point out that Greta Thunberg is 22 years old. She's been an adult for 4 years now

[–] merdaverse@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

How time flies when you're ~~having fun~~ worried if the world will still exist tomorrow

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 56 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 97 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That explains why they didn’t just shoot on site

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 80 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I don't think kidnapped should be in " ", it's an entirely literal act of piracy and terrorism

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