Israeli forces take control of Gaza aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg
Israeli forces take control of Gaza aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg
Crew of activists making symbolic attempt to deliver aid expected to be held in port until deportation hearings
*pirates *hijacked
Corrected for you.
And kidnapped the crew.
Boy I remember the Houthi headlines. All of those words like "piracy, hijack, armed men, kidnap" etcetera are suddenly nowhere to be found in the media headlines.
I think in this case they would be privateers, as they have government backing.
Semantics though, as privateers are just "pirates with permission to pirate certain groups over others"
Either way, "criminals and terrorists hijack peaceful convoy bound to deliver aid to genocide victims"
Interesting way to say a British ship was attacked in International waters.
Lets sit back and watch my government do fuck all about it.
Maybe they can give Israel some money to make them feel better? There there poor Israel, the naughty aid workers are in prison now it's okay that food won't reach the people that need it, phew that was a close one.
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Israeli forces would be expected to do this in order to uphold the government's blockade, and the flotilla crew would know that before going in (that's why they had prerecorded messages ready). That doesn't make it any less awful, but they accepted this risk.
But if this goes sour for Thunberg, it's going to be a global shitstorm that might finally break through the Israel defenders. I hope nothing happens to the crew and they're returned safely, and I hope this brings more publicity to what's occurring.
Thunberg is a public figure and that would trigger something if anything were to happen to her (apart from being illegally kidnapped during an act of piracy by a rogue terrorist state). But there is also Rima Hassan on board, a French Palestinian sitting EU representative. The fact that nobody in the EU, and especially France, called Israel out on kidnapping a sitting rep yet is absolutely appalling and terrifying.
My only doubt was to whether they'd shoot them down outright (in international waters btw) or arrest them.
It seems as though the rich white swede is a worthy victim, so they chose the latter. Now they have hostages for closed-door negotiations. Hooray.Let's see what will The World™ do. Cynical be is betting on "not much beyond stern words".
The headline should say “kidnapped”
The IDF is actually a military formation specialized in attacking civilians, killing children, committing genocide and other war crimes. Israel is a state that carries out terrorist acts, and the United States is a state that sponsors terrorist formations. This is the harsh truth.
The israeli death forces are world class at targeting unarmed civilians and killing women and children.
Shocking.... That outcome was totally unexpected!!!!!11111
In the end, they got what they wanted in the first place... Media attention... We are commenting under a news post.
No, they wanted their countries to protect them after getting kidnapped and expose the lie that israel isn't starving palestinians
The tracker stopped within Egypt's EEZ. https://freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/
Did IDF seized a boat with food supplies in foreign EEZ?
more about how long People in Gaza have been hostage and not allowed freedom of movement and trade since 1991 !
Ok, add another bunch of people to the 'Israeli hostages' count.
At least they didn't blow her up, but who knows how much they'll torture her.