Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian.
According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown.
In an email sent by the Swedish foreign ministry to people close to Thunberg, and seen by the Guardian, an official who has visited the activist in prison said she claimed she was detained in a cell infested with bedbugs, with too little food and water.
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yeah but I assume the alternatives you’d consider acceptable wouldn’t make the news, because it wouldn’t threaten the status quo.
Well that’s not true. The flotillas are forcing Israel to very publicly show that they don’t allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. We just had a wave of countries recognize Palestine as a state. She has helped destroy Israel’s perceptions worldwide. This is like saying Rosa Parks should’ve just not gotten on the bus. Getting arrested is the point of the protest.
A nation’s territorial Waters? When did they do that?
Unfortunately, I dont think they had to make it to territorial waters or the blockade.
UNCLOS allows for arrests and impoundment in international waters, once an intent to enter teritorial waters for a prohibited actions has been declared.
Among those stated prohibited acts are propaganda against that state (Afaict as determined by that state) and the importance of goods in violation of that states laws.
Im not sure exactlt sure the laws of a blockade, but my understanding is that its similar- once intent to bypass the blockade is announced, the blockading military is free to engage in international waters, not wait for the line to be crossed.
In both cases, its a dubious claim whether the blockade was legal, or Israel Had the right to claim territorial waters in front of Gaza- but my understanding is both would have needed to be challenged in court to be invalidated, that an official claim is valid until ruled otherwise.
It was a nation’s territorial waters. Weirdly, the ones who arrested aren’t the people whose waters they were in. 🤔🤔🤔
After getting boarding illegally by Israeli forces and taken to Israel
They were abducted while in international waters. They were sailing toward Palestinian national waters off the coast of Gaza. Nobody has a right to stop anyone from entering Palestinian territory except the Palestinians.
This was not a symbolic protest. It was a humanitarian mission delivering aid to a civilian population that is being starved and genocided under an illegal blockade.
And what would those be, exactly?