Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg arrived in Greece to a cheering pro-Palestinian crowd on Monday after she and hundreds of other activists captured by Israel on the high seas were deported following an attempt to bring aid to Gaza.
Israel said it expelled 171 activists, including Thunberg, bringing the total deported over so far to 341, out of 479 people it detained when it captured the flotilla attempting to break its naval blockade of Gaza.
Thunberg said: “The Global Summit Flotilla was the biggest ever attempt to break Israel's illegal and inhumane siege by sea. It is a story of global international solidarity, of people stepping up when our governments fail to do so.
Of people saying that my leaders, so-called leaders, who are supposed to represent me, who continue to fuel a genocide, death and destruction, they do not represent me. And this is a last resort that this mission has to exist is a shame.”
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