Greta Thunberg’s return, the most visible face of the 470 detainee activists of the Flotilla Global Sumud By Israel, he was the most anticipated.
Faithful to her combative style, the young Swedish, already released, delivered a speech to hundreds of people with Palestinian flags and banners against “genocide” between applause and flower necklaces, upon arrival on Monday afternoon to the Athens airport along with 170 other activists deported by the Hebrew state.
“What we wanted to do It has been to stand up when our governments have failed to fulfill their obligations Legal, ”he explained about the mission of the flotilla.
Greta Thunberg has not walked around. “Let me be very clear, what we are seeing before our eyes is a genocidewhich is broadcast live. No one can say that he does not know what is happening, “he denounced.
In this sense, the activist recalled that international law obliges states to act to prevent and stop a genocide. “We are not seeing it. Our systems are betraying the Palestinians “he has reproached.
“I could speak for a long time about ill -treatment and abuse we suffer During our imprisonment, but that is not the story, “Thunberg said before the media at the airport.
The Swedish activist stressed that the international community must focus on which “While Israel intensified his genocide and mass destruction” To try “to eliminate an entire population”he has violated international law by preventing the humanitarian aid that carried the flotilla from entering the enclave, where, he said, “people are starving.”
The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday reported the deportation of Greta Thunberg and another 170 detained through a statement, accompanied by Thunberg photos at the airport.
Greta Thunberg at Ramon International Airport, in southern Israel, before being deported along with other flotilla activists.
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Denunciations of ill -treatment
A large part of deported activists have denounced Bad treatment and violations of his rights by the Israeli authorities during his captivity, or “kidnapping” in his own words, in Ketziot prison. Accusations that denies the Hebrew State.
Swedish activists denounced on Saturday that Thunberg was pushed and forced to use an Israeli flag during his arrestwhile others assured that they were denied food and water and confiscated their medications and belongings.
For its part, Swiss and Spaniards of the Flotilla, including the former mayor of Barcelona, There is colau, They reported having been subject to inhuman conditions during their arrest by Israeli forces.
Among the nine members of the flotilla that returned to Switzerland, some denounced having suffered deprivation of sleep, lack of water and food, in addition to being beaten, kicked and locked in a cage, said the group that represents them in a statement.
Spanish activists also denounced ill -treatment upon arrival in Spain late Sunday after being deported.
“They hit us, they dragged us on the ground, we were bandaged by our eyes, They tied us hands and feet, put us into cages and insulted us“said the lawyer Rafael Borrego to journalists at the Madrid airport.
Colaufor his part, he said that There were “ill -treatment, but that is nothing compared to what the Palestinian people suffer daily”.
Spanish journalists Carlos de Barrón y Néstor Prieto They affirmed that Israeli authorities signed a statement in the name of the activists deported claiming that they had entered Israel illegally. “They placed us in Hebrew documents in front of us, refusing the right to a translator, and we did not receive consular assistance because they did not allow entry to the consul (Spanish) to the port of Ashdod,” said Prieto.
Swedish activists denounced on Saturday that Thunberg was pushed and forced to use an Israeli flag during his arrestwhile others assured that they were denied food and water and confiscated their medications and belongings.
The Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs has labeled “complete lies” all the complaints of ill -treatment and defends that the legal rights of all those arrested and that the only act of violence involved a Spanish activist who bit a doctor in prison have been respected.