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Greta Thunberg kidnapped on Gaza flotilla; videos show Israeli forces hijacking Madleen (www.hindustantimes.com)

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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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[–] [email protected] 108 points 4 days ago (8 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...

[–] [email protected] 80 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

Facts.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

remember that time where they piled a bunch of boxes with a printout that said medical aid, then have soldiers move them into an hospital they evacuated, showing how weightless they are. and how useful will those empty boxes will be in the hospital they vacated

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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

Fucking genocidal assholes

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nah, they will give it to their ISIS aligned collaborators and then shoot anyone/bomb anyone else who goes near it.

[–] WoodScientist 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They will then destroy Hamas. Once Hamas is destroyed, they will demand that the new group be destroyed before the war can end. They will then fund a third group to distribute aid.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Israel has repeatedly shown that they will stop at nothing short of completely wiping out every last Palestinian.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Or just bomb anyone that tries to touch it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Real humanitarians who will deliver the aid via sniper bullets to the forehead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

tiny amount of aid

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

[–] Threeme2189 1 points 3 days ago

They'll probably send it into Gaza along with all of the truck loads of aid that are being sent their.