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Israeli Navy Intercepts Gaza Flotilla, Arrests 200 Including Thunberg
Euroweekly News ^ | 02 Oct 2025 | Natascha Rivera

Posted on 10/03/2025 1:49:06 PM PDT by nickcarraway

ISRAELI Navy forces have intercepted almost two dozen ships from a Gaza-bound international flotilla, and detained more than 200 people onboard, including famed Swedish climate and humanitarian activist Greta Thunberg. The forces ordered the flotilla to change course with the reasoning that they were heading into an active war zone and violating a lawful naval blockade. The activists were sailing toward Gaza with the aim of bringing humanitarian aid and attempting to break the Israeli blockade.

On the evening of Wednesday, October 1, the Global Sumud Flotilla, or GSF, said through an Instagram post that Israeli forces had boarded three of its vessels. “High alert. Our vessels are being illegally intercepted,” said the post. “Cameras are offline and vessels have been boarded by military personnel. We are actively working to confirm the safety and status of all participants on board.”

On the morning of Thursday, October 2, the flotilla was 46 nautical miles from their destination, but as it neared the Gaza strip, Israeli forces intercepted at least 20 ships and arrested the activists. The detained are being transported to Israeli ports.

Organisers said 20 ships in the flotilla have been intercepted as of Thursday morning, in what the Turkish Foreign Ministry called a “terrorist act” that endangered the lives of the civilians onboard. Nearly 20 more ships are still sailing onwards.

The flotilla, upon which sailed nearly 500 activists including lawyers, lawmakers, and human rights advocates, had been on its journey for more than a month on the Mediterranean Sea seeking to bring aid to the Palestinian enclave, ravaged by widespread hunger.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Canada; Foreign Affairs; France; Israel; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: australia; canada; doomgoblin; france; gazaflotilla; israeli; thunberg; unitedkingdom

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To: nickcarraway

Tell trump they’re smuggling drugs into the USA


21 posted on 10/03/2025 3:05:18 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: InsidiousMongo

Set the activists ashore in Gaza, barefoot and penniless, then sink every boat.


22 posted on 10/03/2025 3:06:04 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: nickcarraway

Send them all into Gaza at 5:59 pm, Sunday, Washington time.


23 posted on 10/03/2025 3:14:07 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.”)
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To: catnipman

And there are plenty of man eating sharks off southern Israel. Remember that poor chap, Popov?


24 posted on 10/03/2025 3:23:51 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: nickcarraway

Hooray for the Israeli Navy. Sink the flotilla & deport any survivors.


25 posted on 10/03/2025 3:26:14 PM PDT by gildafarrell ("No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.")
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To: nickcarraway

Two dozen ships with only 200 people? Those aren’t ships, they’re boats.


26 posted on 10/03/2025 4:31:00 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: nickcarraway

(Greta should be spanked and sent to bed.)

Ok, I lost it for a few minutes.

She is a nothing burger who needs attention but has nothing to cause herself to be recognized.

So, as we call the losers in poker games, “GOOD BYE COLD ASS, GRETA!”
Go Home!


27 posted on 10/03/2025 5:00:10 PM PDT by BatGuano (If only tears could bring Charlie Kirk back.)
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To: nickcarraway

I had to scroll down quite a way through the subject matter to find good news. That being puke Greta got arrested. It’s interesting how the left uses brain deficient people like Greta as their leaders.

Others would be Harris, Biden, AOC and a host of others in the rat party.


28 posted on 10/03/2025 5:25:19 PM PDT by redfreedom (They’re AWFUL...Affuent White Female Urban Leftists)
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