Overview

• Thunberg says guards beat and kicked her, deprived her of water in extreme heat, and threatened to gas detainees during her detention after the flotilla was stopped.
• She reports being forcibly wrapped in an Israeli flag and describes baggage vandalized with an Israeli flag, a crude drawing, and insults written in Swedish.
• Other flotilla activists have reported the forced flag-wrapping, adding to testimony that challenges the official narrative.
• Israel’s Foreign Ministry called the claims outright lies and said she has not lodged a formal complaint with authorities.
• An IDF video shows a soldier giving Thunberg water and a coat, while officials say the vessel was intercepted about 160 km off Gaza, passengers were taken to an Israeli port, and she was deported on October 6.