ROME/ATHENS ¨C Israeli forces boarded several boats carrying foreign activists and aid bound for Gaza and took them to an Israeli port on Wednesday, disrupting a protest that has become one of the most high-profile symbols of opposition to Israel¡¯s blockade of the enclave.
A video from the Israeli foreign ministry showed the most prominent of the flotilla¡¯s passengers, Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, sitting on a deck surrounded by soldiers.
¡°Several vessels of the Hamas-Sumud flotilla have been safely stopped and their passengers are being transferred to an Israeli port,¡± the Israeli foreign ministry wrote on X. ¡°Greta and her friends are safe and healthy.¡±
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