Israel, which has been blocking the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip for 3 months, starving 2 million Palestinians, hijacked the crew of the ship on 9 June to break the blockade peacefully. There were 10 activists and activists from European countries and 2 journalists on board.
The Fleet of Freedom did not scope Gaza, but it achieved something else – the planet saw Israel break global law erstwhile again, kidnapping civilians in extraterritorial waters. On board the ship MadleenThere was food, medicine, water desalination kits and modified milk for infants – in Gaza mothers are incapable to breastfeed due to utmost malnutrition, and milk substitutes ran out weeks ago. The UN is informing that in northern Gaza, 37% of children under the age of 2 are suffering from utmost malnutrition.
Israel intercepted Madleen's ship in global waters – a gross violation of the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea, which permits intervention on the advanced seas only in strictly defined cases: piracy, slave trade or illegal radio broadcasting. A peaceful humanitarian mission does not meet any of these conditions.
The planet saw, twisted his nose, shruged his arms. Representatives of the countries from which they were captured requested their release from the Israeli authorities. Emmanuel Macron one more time condemned Israeli actions in Gaza, recalling that France is invariably demanding a ceasefire (although continues to sale arms to Israel). The Swedish abroad Minister has not failed to add that activists "take individual work due to the fact that Sweden advised against travelling to the Gaza Strip".
The European Union washed its hands. In a message issued on 9 June – 14 hours after the interception of the ship and the arrest of 12 volunteers, including French Euro MP Rima Hassan, the European Commission issued a cost-effective message stating that work for solving the problem rests with the countries from which they come from.
Meanwhile, Israel collects applause in the media and on the net for the "extraordinarily humane" treatment of 12 European civilians who were attacked around 3 o'clock in the night, were targeted at them with rifles, forced to throw their phones into the sea and handcuffed them, and subsequently put before a choice: they will sign deportation documents, thus admitting illegal entry into Israel, and return to their homelands – or stay in custody to clear the substance in court. 4 people, including Greta Thunberg, are already in Europe, and 8 others will face Israeli justice.
The bar is set dramatically low
Israel has accustomed us to specified low moral standards and so unceremonious violations of human rights and global law that alternatively of taking firm steps to break the blockade – from sanctions to peaceful military intervention, if any another means prove ineffective – Europe is grateful that the crew of the ship has only been abducted and not shot, as has happened erstwhile before. The European Union is now committed to "looking at agreements" with Israel, and individual countries are constantly defending it and supporting it in all way possible, including their propaganda.
Greta Thunberg, erstwhile asked erstwhile she returned to Europe if she was disappointed that she did not scope Gaza, replied that "disappointed" was not the right word in a situation of genocide and systemic starvation of 2 million civilians. The disappointed ones are not short among right-wing politicians and commentators, especially from Israel and the US, who wished for a 22-year-old to drown or die in a more fancy way, as they expressed in many entries on X and podcasts.
Like Rachel Corrie, who was only a year older than Greta erstwhile she was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer. Rachel was an American peace activist active in the conflict for Palestinian rights. In 2003, she arrived in Rafah, a city in Gaza, where the Israeli army conducted illegal operations the demolition of Palestinian homes. She died on March 16 during a protest against the demolition of the household home with which she lived. She stood on the road of the armored bulldozer Caterpillar D9R, wearing a reflective vest. another activists shouted at the device operator and tried to halt him, but this 1 moved, crushing Rachel.
The unsub was not held responsible. The Israeli army felt that there had been an unfortunate accident due to impaired visibility. The United States, whose citizens died that way, did not get justice.
The likelihood of Greta Thunberg or 1 of her companions dying on a cruise to Gaza was not great. Although Israel has murdered over 450 humanitarian workers in little than 2 years, including World Central Kitchen volunteers and Doctors without Borders, and the erstwhile Freedom Flotilla boat, on which there were 16 people on board – on the night of 1st to 2nd May 2025 he fired from drones (the crew managed to evacuate), but the presence of Thunberg, 1 of the most recognizable activists in the world, made physical elimination besides costly to be imaged. It was much smarter to usage the situation for propaganda.
The bar is so low that all you had to do was not kill Greta, put a video on the network, where you can see Greta smiling erstwhile she appears kidnapped to be sandwiches and water, flicking her image against Israeli flags. Tasty added that the detainees refused to watch recordings of the massacre organised by Hamas in 2023 – which by apologists of the Palestinian crime was read as an act of cowardice, and in fact was an act of opposition to justifying the extermination of 2 million Palestinians with a massacre in which over 1,200 Israelis were killed.
It's not like the 12 of Madleen didn't hazard it. 13 years ago, the same mission was undertaken by a squad of wider unknown activists from the same Freedom Fleet. On board the ship Mavi Marmara There were only unarmed civilians carrying humanitarian aid for the besieged Gaza. On the night of May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos boarded in global waters. 10 Turkish activists died, many were injured. Israel utilized to explain that he acted in “self-defense;” despite being condemned by the UN and global observers, he never took responsibility.
In 2014, the global Criminal Court refused to initiate criminal proceedings, considering that the scale of the crime was not adequate for its jurisdiction. This seriously damaged Israel’s relation with Turkey, but was besides limited to expressions of outrage and Business as user He's back.
How do we get out of the media? Just point to Israel
The Israeli propaganda calls Madleen “the selfiacs' boat” and the defence minister publically addressed “the anti-Semitic Greta and her friends” the day before the hijacking of the crew: “I say clearly: you should turn back, due to the fact that you will not scope Gaza.” There are stupid and stupid arguments against activists. "She was so afraid about the climate, but seemingly it was no longer worth it, so she promotes herself on another loud cause" – he is 1 of the most popular. She repeats that “she does not realize how 1 can think that caring for the planet and caring for people exclude 1 another.”
There is besides a direct link between the climate crisis and the genocide in Gaza – bombings, fires and infrastructure demolition make immense amounts of carbon dioxide and another greenhouse gases – the first weeks of the conflict in 2023 caused more emissions than any tiny countries make all year round. At the same time, humanitarian blockade and demolition of natural resources, specified as soil, water and energy systems, undermine the local capacity to deal with climate change. In addition, armed conflicts inhibit efforts to counter them, refocusing financial resources and the world's attention on arms alternatively of energy transformation.
Thunberg as a wonderful child, a brazen girl with autism who crushes climate negators know and cares about nature, was attractive to the liberal mainstream. She was on the covers, the “most influential” and “brave” rankings, she gave hundreds of interviews, she was the man of the year of the magazine “Time”, she was fortune-telling her peaceful Nobel. It only began to change erstwhile it merged the dots – between climate disaster, capitalism, patriarchy. This is already beyond mainstream media and institutions' tolerance in capitalism.
Thunberg's destiny was sealed by the Palestinians. After she was photographed in a Palestinian kafija, in our place known as an arafat, criticizing crimes in Gaza, she almost completely disappeared. But only from the media space – due to the fact that it inactive works, much of the attention being redirected to the mediate East.
Who's gonna halt them?
Maritime blockades are not automatically illegal, but 1 of the 5 conditions that the blocking organization must fulfil is to enable the provision of humanitarian assistance to the civilian population. Israel not only does not do so, but has made a starving deadly weapon against the Palestinians and a tool for carrying out a planned (and publically announced) cultural cleansing. People leave their lands, walking for hours in the hope of a part of bread or flour, and set by Israel in cooperation with the US "aid centers" prove to be at best a propaganda farce, at worst a deadly trap. Like on 1 June in Rafah, where the Israeli army shot at least 26 people, and injured 275, precisely where they were told to wait for food delivery.
International humanitarian law, including Article 55 IV of the Geneva Convention, makes it clear that the occupying state has a work to supply food and medical care to the civilian population. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich publically announced that the humanitarian blockade would proceed until "Hamas is eliminated". Given that even the Freedom Fleet activists consider Israeli officials to be Hamas allies, this means nothing little than further extermination.
The Israeli military seized the products transported by Madleen, including baby milk. The UN warns that respective 1000 Palestinian children are on the verge of starvation, and social media is full of recordings of children's skeletons, newborns with unnaturally bulging eyes, crying and screaming from hunger. Children are always the first victims of a hunger disaster – they have more energy request for body weight, little fat and glycogen stores, and immature immune systems, and, in the absence of food, they are more easy affected by fatal infections.
"Awoken" Piers Morgan ruga Greta Thunberg
Piers Morgan, 1 of the most celebrated tv presenters and commentators in Britain, was for many months a leading media advocate for Israeli narrative. all effort to criticize the actions of the Israeli army in Gaza was blooming as “propalestine propaganda”, “justification of Hamas” or “anti-Semitism”. In his programs, there were frequently aggressive confrontations with guests attempting to present a Palestinian position that Morgan interrupted, embarrassed and accused of “no empathy for the victims on October 7.”
In April 2025 he accused a young British woman, an environmental activist, of supporting terrorism as she made the map of Palestine available on her profile before 1948. He claimed at the time that all pro-Palestinian protests were “a camouflaged support for Hamas” and that all criticism of Israel was “a veiled form of hatred against the Jews.”
In May 2025, Morgan unexpectedly began to talk differently. After the Amnesty global series of reports, Human Rights Watch, UN and relations Doctors without borders, showing the degree of the harm and the number of victims, admitted in the program that "what is happening in Gaza looks like genocide". In the following episode he concluded that “Israel has gone besides far” and “the planet cannot proceed to look idle at the death of children.” any considered it an act of courage, others considered it a late PR maneuver. Morgan's transformation coincided with a sharp fall in public support for Israel, an expanding force from global opinion and increasingly shocking relations from Gaza, which even his audience could no longer ignore.
However, this “moral awakening” did not prevent him from attacking Greta Thunberg in an highly perfidious way, who supported the Palestinian origin before it was widely acceptable to the media. Morgan stated that the activist “dos the show” that “leaves the climate to advance war” and that her actions are “irresponsible and narcissistic.” The presenter, who himself utilized all controversy to increase the ratings of his shows for years, accused Grecie... of self-promotion.
Greta Thunberg has done nothing that a human conscience would not require of her. She heard from Israel’s defenders: “How you care so much about the Palestinians, then get out to Gaza!” — so she sailed with food, medicines and water, was handcuffed, hailed as a terrorist partner, and then ridiculed by cynics who lived their full lives on the couch, switching channels on tv between the relation with genocide and the ads of chips.
Greta Thunberg has no reason to be grateful to Israel. It is her Europe that should thank. For inactive believing it's worth trying. For reminding us of who we could have been if we had more empathy, courage and determination.
