Greta Thunberg touches go into reverse in Sweden after being deported from Israel and vows to RETURN after failed ‘freedom flotilla’ challenge

Greta Thunberg has landed again house in Sweden following her deportation from Israel, however has defiantly vowed to go back after her failed support challenge.

The 22-year-old activist spoke to newshounds in Paris simply hours after being forcibly got rid of from Israel along a gaggle of 11 different world activists who have been on board the ‘freedom flotilla’.

The crew had set sail in opposition to Gaza sporting a symbolic quantity of support, prior to being intercepted by means of Israeli forces in world waters off the coast of Egypt early Monday.

They had been then taken to the port of Ashdod, the place Thunberg used to be detained prior to being put on a flight to France on Tuesday morning.

Despite her swift deportation, Thunberg used to be unrepentant. The activist vowed that they ‘would now not forestall’ seeking to lend a hand and promised that ‘this isn’t the tip.’

Thunberg informed newshounds in a while after touchdown in Paris: ‘What is sure is that we can now not forestall. 

‘We are going to proceed attempt to do the whole lot we will be able to as a result of that’s the promise that we have got given to to Palestinians.

‘We are going to take a look at each unmarried day in each method that we will be able to and stay seeking to call for an finish to the atrocities.’

Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday shared a photograph of the disgruntled 22-year-old sitting on board the airplane moments prior to the flight departed Israel’s Ben Gurion airport

A surveillance pictures displays workforce of the Gaza-bound British-flagged yacht ‘Madleen’, put their palms up as they’re intercepted by means of Israeli boats early Monday morning 

She accused Israel of ‘kidnapping’ her in world waters, a declare she made up to now in a dramatic pre-recorded SOS message launched in a while after her detention.

But an image of her smiling as a soldier introduced her sandwich after her boat used to be intercepted briefly went viral. 

Thunberg accused Israel of orchestrating a PR stunt following the motion.

Speaking on Tuesday, she doubled down: ‘People weren’t being handled neatly. I used to be now not in a position to to mention good-bye to other people and I do not know what is going down. And there have been many, many problems’.

Pressed for main points on her remedy, she described the enjoy as ‘very dehumanising,’ regardless that she insisted: ‘But after all, I’ve to worry not anything in comparison to what Palestinians are going via. I would like now not to enter element’. 

She added: ‘I know that there have been main problems with other people in truth getting to speak to legal professionals. 

‘When you take a look at the state of the arena, the whole lot feels meaningless. But except you attempt to do the whole lot you’ll be able to, we lose our hope.’ 

The activist, who has lengthy eschewed air shuttle for setting causes, used to be photographed on board an airplane en path to France previous on Tuesday – a second that Israel’s Foreign Ministry used to be fast to publicise, posting the picture on social media platform X.

Prior to her deportation, Defence Minister Israel Katz mentioned he’d steered IDF officers to turn the activists the overall, unedited pictures of the October 7 assaults as recorded by means of Hamas terrorist frame cameras.

‘It is acceptable that the anti-Semitic Greta and her fellow Hamas supporters see precisely who the Hamas 15 may organization they got here to toughen and for whom they paintings is, what atrocities they dedicated towards girls, the aged, and kids, and towards whom Israel is combating to protect itself,’ he mentioned. 

Late on Monday evening, he informed newshounds: ‘Greta and her flotilla partners had been taken right into a room upon their arrival to the screening of the horror movie of the October 7 bloodbath… after they noticed what it used to be about, they refused to proceed looking at. 

Greta Thunberg is pictured on the Israeli port of Ashdod after the Madleen ‘freedom flotilla’ send used to be intercepted by means of Israeli boats on Monday

The Madleen, which sailed in opposition to Gaza to lift consciousness of the disaster within the territory

A normal view of the Ashdod Port the place the Madleen used to be towed after being intercepted and the place the activists had been detained

The Israeli overseas ministry additionally derided what it referred to as the ‘selfie yacht’ sporting ‘superstar’ activists, including that the help onboard could be transferred to Gaza via what it referred to as ‘actual humanitarian channels’ 

‘The anti-Semitic flotilla contributors are turning a blind eye to the reality and feature confirmed as soon as once more that they like the murderers to the murdered and proceed to forget about the atrocities dedicated by means of Hamas towards Jewish and Israeli girls, adults, and kids.’

Katz and different Israeli officers have come underneath fireplace for branding Thunberg and her fellow activists ‘anti-Semitic’ for in need of to ship support to ravenous Gazans.

But Israeli govt spokesperson David Mencer mentioned: ‘This wasn’t humanitarian support. It’s Instagram activism…

‘Who’s truly feeding Gaza and who is truly feeding their very own ego? Greta used to be now not bringing support, she used to be bringing herself.’

Meanwhile, the French govt published that 5 of the six French electorate detained along Thunberg had refused to signal deportation orders, that means they’re going to now face judicial court cases.

US President Donald Trump didn’t pass over the chance to wade in at the controversy.

‘I believe Israel has sufficient issues with out kidnapping Greta Thunberg. She’s a tender, offended particular person… I believe she has to visit an anger control magnificence,’ he mentioned.

Thunberg replied to his feedback, announcing: ‘I believe the arena wishes numerous extra younger, offended girls, to be fair, particularly with the whole lot happening at this time’.

After a temporary forestall in France, Thunberg landed again house at Stockholm’s Arlanda airport simply after 10:30pm Tuesday. 

She used to be greeted by means of round 30 cheering supporters waving Palestinian flags amid a big media presence on the airport.

An symbol shared by means of the Israeli Foreign Ministry of what the ministry mentioned had been passengers at the Madleen Gaza-bound support boat being given sandwiches

Thunberg joined 11 activists in crusing to the Gaza Strip with a ‘symbolic’ quantity of support

On June 10, 2025, Israel deported Swedish Greta Thunberg by means of airplane to Sweden by means of France, after she used to be arrested on board an support boat for Gaza with different pro-Palestinian activists who had been taken to Ben Gurion airport for deportation

Of the 12 other people on board the crusing boat Madleen, two French nationals agreed to be deported on June 10, whilst 4 others declined pending a courtroom determination. Pictured: Thunberg used to be greeted by means of round 30 cheering supporters waving Palestinian flags amid a big media presence on the airport

Asked in Stockholm if she used to be scared when the protection forces boarded the Madleen sailboat, Thunberg responded: ‘What I’m scared of is that persons are silent all through an ongoing genocide’.

‘What I think maximum is worry for the ongoing violations of world regulation and conflict crimes that Israel is to blame of,’ Thunberg informed newshounds.

She accused Israel of sporting out a ‘systematic genocide’ and ‘systematic hunger of over two million other people’ in Gaza.

Several rights teams together with Amnesty International have accused Israel of genocide towards the Palestinians in Gaza however Israel vehemently rejects the time period.

‘We should act, we should call for that our govt acts, and we should act ourselves when our complicit governments don’t step up,’ Thunberg mentioned.

She rose to reputation as a schoolgirl activist towards local weather trade and seeks to keep away from flying on account of its environmental have an effect on, going as far as to move the Atlantic by means of sailboat two times.

She gave the impression at a loss for words about newshounds’ questions on the way it felt to shuttle by means of airplane, replying, ‘Why are you asking about that?’

Of the 12 other people on board the Madleen sporting meals and provides for Gaza, 8 had been taken into custody when they refused to depart Israel voluntarily.

Four others, together with Thunberg, had been deported.

All of them had been banned from Israel for 100 years, in keeping with the rights crew that legally represents a few of them.