Overview

• Turkey confirmed a Turkish Airlines flight brought 137 deported activists to Istanbul, including 36 Turkish citizens and others from the United States, UAE, Algeria, Morocco, Italy, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Mauritania, Switzerland, Tunisia and Jordan.
• Israel intercepted roughly 40 boats and initially detained more than 450 people, and officials say removals are ongoing with additional nationals, including 15 Italians, still awaiting expulsion.
• Legal group Adalah and released participants allege denial of lawyers, water and medication, forced kneeling with zip ties, and physical and psychological abuse, claims reported across multiple outlets.
• Swedish officials said they met Greta Thunberg in detention and she described dehydration, insufficient food and water and rashes she suspected were from bedbugs, while fellow activists alleged she was shoved and made to wear or hold an Israeli flag.
• Israel’s foreign ministry rejected the abuse accounts as “complete lies,” defended the raid as blockade enforcement, labeled detainees provocateurs and said some obstructed deportation, as protests and Turkish inquiries gathered pace.