Shortly after their arrests, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, the nonprofit that has staged dozens of efforts to reach Gaza to protest Israel, posted prerecorded videos on X showing the crew members saying that they had been “kidnapped.” They called on their home governments to put pressure on Israel to release them.

An aid boat carrying climate activist Greta Thunberg as well as other activists was detained by Israeli forces Monday. The

Former Labor senator Graham Richardson discusses Greta Thunberg’s recent deportation from Israel following the IDF intercepting the Freedom Flotilla.

Thunberg, one of the world’s most famous activists, claimed she and others on a Gaza-bound aid vessel were kidnapped by Israeli forces.

According to Defense Minister Israel Katz, the activists refused to continue watching the film after seeing this content.