cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/84511

Israeli guards stripped humanitarian activist Greta Thunberg naked and wrote ‘whore Greta’ on her luggage after abducting her, and around four hundred other volunteer crew members, in a criminal attack in international waters on the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying baby food and other vital items to Gaza:

Greta Thunberg: multiple human rights violations by Israel

The fascist thugs’ violence toward Thunberg had already become known from other released crew, but the grim details of the appalling abuse are only now coming out.

Among the crimes Israeli guards and troops committed against Thunberg:

“Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me” – Greta Thunberg herself.“They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me”.“Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked”.She was filmed while stripped naked.She and others were kept in a prison cell at 40 degrees Celsius and deprived of water.Guards threatened to gas her and others, showing them gas cylinders.She and others were kept in solitary confinement for long periods in parasite-infested cell

Thunberg and others also reported that every time anyone looked up from the ground in the ‘stress positions’ they were forced to maintain on concrete floors, they were knocked to the ground and beaten. Thunberg was also tormented with an Israeli flag:

The flag was placed so that it would touch me. When it fluttered and touched me, they shouted “Don’t touch the flag” and kicked me in the side. After a while·, my hands were put in cable ties, very tight. A bunch of guards lined up to take selfies with me as I sat there.

They take my bag and throw away all the things they interpret as Palestine-related. They take each thing and stare into my eyes and at the same time pick up a knife and slowly cut them apart with it, while ten people take selfies.

You felt like you couldn’t “afford” to cry because you were so dehydrated. It was so hot, like 40 degrees. We kept asking: Can we get water? Can we get water?

In the end, people were screaming. The guards kept walking in front of the bars, laughing and holding up their water bottles. They threw the bottles of water in, in the garbage cans in front of us.

Thunberg also reported the support she received from other abducted volunteers – and the price they paid for it:

I needed to go to the bathroom and asked to. Then I needed to be led through where people were sitting and they saw me. A female member of the Swedish delegation said: “We are with you Greta.”

Then she was taken aside and beaten.

Israel is a terror state and a fascist, ethno-supremacist project. If this is how it will treat Thunberg and other foreign victims, imagine what it is doing every day to Palestinian hostages.

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