The Guardian – June 9, 2025
Israeli forces have taken command of a vessel that tried to challenge its naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, with the boat and its crew of 12 including activist Greta Thunberg now heading to a port in Israel, officials said on Sunday.
The British-flagged yacht Madleen, which is operated by the pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), was aiming to deliver a symbolic amount of aid to Gaza later on Monday and raise international awareness of the humanitarian crisis there.
However, the boat was boarded in the early hours of Monday before it could reach shore, the FFC said on its Telegram account. The Israeli foreign ministry later confirmed that it was under Israeli control.
“The ‘selfie yacht’ of the ‘celebrities’ is safely making its way to the shores of Israel. The passengers are expected to return to their home countries,” the ministry wrote on X.
All passengers were safe and unharmed, the ministry later added. “They were provided with sandwiches and water. The show is over.”
The FFC accused Israel of “forcibly intercepting” the Madleen and acting with “total impunity”. It said in a statement the ship was “unlawfully boarded, its unarmed civilian crew abducted, and its life-saving cargo – including baby formula, food and medical supplies – confiscated.”
“Israel has no legal authority to detain international volunteers aboard the Madleen,” said Huwaida Arraf, a Freedom Flotilla organiser. “These volunteers are not subject to Israeli jurisdiction and cannot be criminalized for delivering aid or challenging an illegal blockade – their detention is arbitrary, unlawful, and must end immediately.”
Among the crew are Swedish climate campaigner Thunberg and Rima Hassan, a French member of the European parliament.
“The crew of the Freedom Flotilla was arrested by the Israeli army in international waters around 2am,” Hassan posted on X. A photograph showed the crew seated on the boat, all wearing lifejackets, with their hands in the air.
The yacht is carrying a small shipment of humanitarian aid, including rice and baby formula. The foreign ministry said the aid would be taken to Gaza. “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,” it wrote.
Israeli defence minister Israel Katz ordered the military on Sunday to prevent the Madleen from reaching Gaza, calling the mission a propaganda effort in support of Hamas.
Israel imposed a naval blockade on the coastal territory after Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007.
The blockade has remained in place through multiple conflicts, including the current war, which began after a Hamas-led assault on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, that killed more than 1,200 people, according to an Israeli tally.
Gaza’s health ministry says more than 54,000 Palestinians have been killed since the start of Israel’s military campaign. The United Nations has warned that most of Gaza’s more than 2 million residents are facing famine.
The Israeli government says the blockade is essential to prevent weapons from reaching Hamas.
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations’ special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories, has supported the FFC operation and on Sunday, urged other boats to challenge the Gaza blockade.
“Madleen’s journey may have ended, but the mission isn’t over. Every Mediterranean port must send boats with aid & solidarity to Gaza,” she wrote on X.
With Reuters
Most people hate the “celebrities” (there’s only one really) on this multi million dollar “yacht” sailing around the mediterranean, ie. “greta”. The rest are unknown arab men. You can imagine what they were all up to for the week they were poncing around. They were all full of themselves all the way, especially when they helped yet more invaders reach their target country mid-way. Now they’re sitting there, hands in the air, under the gun of the jew. Mouths shut, egos quenched, fat ugly faces turned down, powerless because, like everyone else, they have zero ability to actually fight. What’s particularly nauseating about it is their “we love everyone” BS. These people “love” no one. “greta” is one of the most hated people on earth. The arabs are perhaps hated by more people globally than even the africans, because they openly intend to take over their victim countries. Any sane person in one of those victim countries wants both the jews and the arabs to kill each other and to take “greta” with them.
The EU is sending all sorts of aid to the Ukraine, why not some also to Gaza, at least humanitarian aid? As to the hijacking a British vessel in international waters, where is the Royal Navy to come to its protection?
Obviously, NATO is willing to provoke a nuclear power like Russia but would not dare to challenge the real nuclear superpower in Tel Aviv…
If that boat has diesel engines I’m reporting Thunberg to Bill Oddie
“From the land to the sea.” Which sea? The Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Southern oceans? Of course.
Thunberg and Ernman, Greta’s mother’s last name, are jewish names, but good luck finding any admission of their jewishness on the internet.
Ms. Ernman was an opera and pop singer– attention-seeking behavior runs in the family.
Greta must be the most fortunate girl on earth. She’s snagged a free cruise in the southern Mediterranean. She’s been greeted by an official Israeli welcoming committee. Their paparazzi have been kindness itself to her. She’s getting a free trip home. The trip home gives her an excuse not to deliver aid to people who are really starving and who really had hoped that she would deliver.
And they made a movie of it all! Although, just as with real movies, they filmed a lot it in advance of the trip to make sure it would come out looking the right way when they put it together.
I’ll bet she expects an Oscar. Too bad so many Gazans won’t be alive anymore to watch her get it on their iphones.
I’m just surprised RAF Surveillance didn’t give Izzy the exact co-ordinates of that boat so it could be ‘blown out the water’ when it was way offshore… 😒
And say what you want about Greta – and I’ve said my ‘ fair share’ over the years 🙄 – but it turns out she’s got more balls than most of what passes for “men” these days..
Notice the Israelis didn’t attack the boat or kill them, since its a Rothschild organized agitprop skit–as they frequently choreograph new phony staged events for the spoiled brat Rothschild relative Greta Turdberg to advance her ‘activist career’.
Greta thunberg = Yid
revised text:
“Notice the Israelis didn’t attack the boat or kill them, like they do with all these other Gaza aid envoys, since its a Rothschild organized agitprop skit…”
The Quiet Genocide
All along, racists National Socialist Israel has been utilizing less bloody methods to get rid of the goyim in their midst. While they have managed to increase their fertility rate to 3 children per woman (higher than anywhere else in the Western world outside of Muslim families), they have reduced the fertility rate of Palestinians to 3 per woman, and are no doubt intent on reducing that number to zero.
When we consider Italy, which is one of the many bankster-controlled, debt-rigged nations of the West, which of some 27 nations in the EU it has the fourth lowest birth rate of 1.24, compared to the EU average of 1.38, we see that nation like the rest of the West is dying off. The evidence is that Italy is being killed mainly by HIGH, HIGH TAXES and the GLOBALIST SOLUTION TO CANCEL CULTURES WITH OPEN BORDERS. Their direct and indirect taxes are over 70% of one’s earnings. The nation is a both a debt and a death trap.
To sustain and support a population it takes at least 2.1 children per woman. Even the US which has had to open its borders to nourish its workforce and have healthy recruits for its military is far below its replacement level and is at 1.66 children per woman. This is the same scenario happening in most Western nations. The sugar candy of debt-based, deficit financing to maintain life-styles we cannot afford with insufficient productivity entails fertility polices the exact opposite of the bankster-favored nation of Israel.
On the vanguard of globalist side promoting and sustaining everything to continue the Western birth dearth you have puppets of the Rothschild dynasty such as George Soros (now “Son of Soros”). This is the vanguard not just to destabilise nations such as the Ukraine beginning in 2012 for the purpose of carving it up for the principal acquisitors on the planet, but it is one of the major powers behind “open society” UN sustainability Agendas, with open borders, more and more central-bank debt rigging, plus the “net-zero CO2” scam. Coincidentally, the Soros consortium has been busy buying up coal reserves all over the world. Obviously, the dangers of burning coal is as much of a hoax as the global-warming scam.
Okay, all of you beautiful people who were forced to drink the Kool Aid propaganda of the culture of death, following the government, media and commercial diktats, with “open sexuality” and only 1.2 children, it is too late to change, and perhaps that is the also the main reason you could care less about your own cultures being replaced with foreign ones who seem to know more about family life and having children. It may be that you even favor the extinction of the West for the sake of some “ethereal planetary equality” which coincidentally excludes you, and most of the people on the planet have no intention of buying int. Unlike the Jews, you seem to have no real concerns about the extinction of your own kind. If you did then that would be “racist” and “exclusive”. That would go directly against all of your life-style values.
You may be against the direct extermination of Palestinians in Gaza, but you have nothing to say about the other more Kosher methods being used over the past 60 years to get rid of them, and also on yourself – if you care to know anything about the systematic corruption of moral values trough money, the media, the entertainment industry and government, as well as about the fertility toxins in the food chain, water, atmosphere, drugs and vaccines. You seem to be fully in support of those measures. You drank the Kool Aid. You have bought into the lie that there are “too many people in the world”. But it is not too late for Italians to say being Italian is good, or being German is good, or being Canadian is good, and we all want to sustain and support our nations and cultures with our own people FIRST.
Totally staged. Why sail into Israeli waters in the middle of the night? Why not during the light of day with live-streaming camera’s blazing?
peter doesn’t realize its all a charade
LMAO– More kosher scripted theater. Thunberg has been ‘detained’ in Ziostan? She’s probably dancing the Hava Nagila on the graves of dead Gazans.with her fellow tribesmen. Someone should have tied a cement block to to that little witch and thrown her overboard.
Ah, a prime example of the Jerman press (not to be mistaken as the Israeli media):
Katz wrote on X: “I have instructed the Israeli Defense Forces to ensure that the hate flotilla ”Madeline” does not reach the Gaza coast and to take all necessary measures to achieve this. To the anti-Semitic Greta and her friends, the propagators of Hamas propaganda, I say clearly: you better turn back – because you will not reach Gaza. Israel will take action against any attempt to break the blockade or support terrorist organizations – by sea, air or land.”
“All the activists on board are avowed Israel-haters. The French scandalous politician Rima Hassan is also on board. She accused Israel, of all countries, of being responsible for the deaths of the kidnapped children Kfir (9 months) and Ariel Bibas (4) and their mother Shiri (32). It was Palestinian terrorists and civilians who abducted the family to Gaza and killed them with their bare hands shortly afterwards.”
https://www.bild.de/politik/ausland-und-internationales/thunberg-will-mit-segelschiff-nach-gaza-israel-gibt-armee-befehl-sie-abzufangen-68457ae828e5c13c1b056d6b
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There YOU have it once again. “Israel-haters EVERYWHERE”
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Hmph – How Dare You!!!! Oh well, dunno why Greta was gong to Gaza – but then, why in hell would Israhell wanna catch her? They say she’s an anti-semite, but she was headed to Gaza, who are 78% Semites, the Israelis are 1% Semites! Hmph. . .I suppose it depends on who has the biggest weapon and drowning in propaganda, ya?
And as posted by the Israelis”-
‘Israeli defence minister Israel Katz ordered the military on Sunday to prevent the Madleen from reaching Gaza, calling the mission a propaganda effort in support of Hamas.’
Propaganda? What in hell do you think the Likudniks are doing(?) – it is swallowed in propaganda – it’s difficult to believe this is in the best interests of both the Palestinians and the Khazar/Ashkenazis!!
And you gotta sit back and see who exactly created Hamas – the Likudniks yup – they always need an enemy to keep the disturbing cruelty going. It wasn’t me – it was the one eyed man with half a brain – Yahu the Nut has to be in this category also,.
just some spoiled commie jew brat
The only time I would have enjoyed watching the rotten Jews sink a “Gaza aid boat”.