This is disgusting…
Greta Thunberg faces harsh treatment in Israeli Custody, she told Swedish officials
Activist Greta Thunberg told Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after being detained from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza.
An official visited Thunberg in an Israeli prison, and said the activist claimed she was detained in a cell infested with bedbugs with insufficient amounts of food, according to the Guardian who saw correspondence sent by the Swedish foreign ministry to people close to Thunberg.
“She informed of dehydration. She has received insufficient amounts of both water and food,” the email seen by the Guardian read.
“She also stated that she had developed rashes which she suspects were caused by bedbugs. She spoke of harsh treatment and said she had been sitting for long periods on hard surfaces,” it said.
…the humiliation and beating is unacceptable…
Israeli forces reportedly took photographs of the 22-year-old being forced to hold flags, said the correspondence and two fellow flotilla activists.
Turkish activist Ersin Çelik, who was also detained by Israeli forces, said Thunberg was assaulted as a warning to others, according to Anadolu.
“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” he said after his release on Saturday.
Journalist and flotilla participant Lorenzo D’Ago said Thunberg was “wrapped up in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy”, according to Anadolu.
Two other detainees, Hazwani Helmi from Malaysia and American citizen Windfield Beaver, told Reuters they saw Thunberg being shoved and forced to wear an Israeli flag.
“It was a disaster. They treated us like animals,” Helmi told the agency.
…Greta is a hero, abusing her is an egregious attempt to break her spirit.
Meanwhile Winston is less interested in the war criminals he has acquiesced to, and more interested in me!
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Beating up young women or children is no way to make friends or influence people – how lacking is IDF education not to know that.
Oh, they know. They just don’t care. Their philosophy right now is, “Who’s going to stop us?” America is wholly complicit, and the UN wanders around muttering to itself like a dementia patient in a hedge maze. Meanwhile, the IDF slaps women around, violates detainees and shoots children in the head.
This is humanity circling the drain.
Of course these feral bastards have beaten a young girl. Part of the negotiations now is Israel releasing jailed Palestinian children! Is that not rather odd?
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