Greta Thunberg among four activists who agreed to deportation, others to appear before Israeli authorities.
Israel has deported Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, a day after seizing the Gaza-bound humanitarian aid ship on which she was sailing alongside 11 others.
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thunberg flew out of Tel Aviv early on Tuesday, bound for Sweden via France, and released her photos on the flight. Upon arriving in Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport, Thunberg told reporters she and her fellow activists had been “kidnapped in international waters”.
According to the legal rights group Adalah, which is representing Thunberg and the other activists and a journalist who sailed in the Madleen vessel towards Gaza, she was among four crew members who accepted deportation.
The remaining activists, who are contesting deportation, will remain in Israeli custody before appearing before judicial authorities.
