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By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, October 4, 2025

As Israeli forces on Friday captured the last remaining vessel from the Global Sumud Flotilla that aimed to break Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip and deliver humanitarian aid, another group of boats was headed for the Palestinian territory.

The 11 vessels, most of which started sailing last week, are “carrying over 150 healthcare workers, journalists, and activists,” according to organizers, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) and Thousand Madleens to Gaza.

“As journalists and medical professionals, we carry the responsibility to speak truth and preserve life,” said Dr. Ricardo Corradini, a general surgeon from Italy, in a statement. “This mission is an appeal to our colleagues—and to the institutions that represent us globally—to break their silence, uphold their ethics, and stand on the right side of history.”

FFC highlighted earlier this week that the ship ”Conscience, bombed by Israel off the coast of Malta in May 2025, has returned to serve as a vehicle for medics and media determined to reach their colleagues in besieged Gaza.”

Huwaida Arraf, an FFC steering committee member aboard Conscience, said that it “is the latest and largest boat in this historic flotilla—and its name represents not only steadfast resistance to Israel’s illegal blockade, but a call to awaken the conscience of the world.”

Since Israeli forces began intercepting Global Sumud Flotilla vessels late Wednesday, a fresh wave of global protests has occurred. People around the world have repeatedly taken to the streets over the past two years, as Israel has responded to the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attack by devastating infrastructure across Gaza, including healthcare facilities, wounding at least 169,165 Palestinians, and slaughtering at least 66,288.

Experts warn the true death toll in Gaza is likely much higher. Among the dead are many doctors and nurses—one count, from Healthcare Workers Watch, said at least 1,200 as of February. Israel’s killing of Gaza’s healthcare professionals continued this week with the death of Omar Hayek from Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

The Israeli attack that killed Hayek and wounded four others “took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al-Balah. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers,” the group said Thursday. “We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir al-Balah.”

Also among the dead are over 200 journalists, with recent tallies ranging from 223 to 270. The Israeli government has prevented international reporters from entering Gaza—and has been widely accused of intentionally killing Palestinian journalists who have reported on the genocide while trying to survive it.

Global press freedom groups have frequently spoken out against Irsael’s treatment of journalists, including this week, when Israeli forces took members of the media into custody while blocking the Global Sumud Flotilla from reaching Gaza.

“Arresting journalists and preventing them from doing their work is a serious violation of the right to inform and be informed,” said Martin Roux, head of the Crisis Desk at Reporters Without Borders, or Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF), in a Thursday statement.

“RSF condemns the illegal arrest of the news professionals who were on board these ships to cover a humanitarian operation of unprecedented scale,” Roux continued. “The Israeli army, which has killed over 210 Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip, is continuing its media blockade of the Gaza Strip with these illegal arrests at sea, with the obvious goal of covering up the crimes it is committing against the Palestinian population. RSF urges Israel to respect the status of journalists, protect them, and guarantee their safety in accordance with international law.”

Early Friday, the flotilla announced on Instagram that ”Marinette, the last remaining boat of the Global Sumud Flotilla, was intercepted at 10:29 am local time, approximately 42.5 nautical miles from Gaza.”

According to the flotilla, whose more than 450 members included politicians, actors, and activists from dozens of countries:

Over 38 hours, Israeli occupation naval forces illegally intercepted all 42 of our vessels—each carrying humanitarian aid, volunteers, and the determination to break Israel’s illegal siege on Gaza.

Marinette sailed forward with the spirit of sumud—steadfastness—even after seeing the fate of 41 boats before her.

But this is not the end of our mission. Our determination to confront Israel’s atrocities and stand with the Palestinian people remains unshaken.

As people rise up in cities worldwide to demand an end to these horrors and to take a stand for humanity, we rise together with one voice.

We will not stop until the genocide ends. We will not stop until Palestine is free.

Until the interception, the flotilla faced repeated attacks widely believed to be from Israel, whose Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Friday continued to smear the peaceful humanitarian mission as the “Hamas-Sumud provocation” and a “sham.”

“Already four Italian citizens have been deported. The rest are in the process of being deported. Israel is keen to end this procedure as quickly as possible,” the ministry said on social media. “All are safe and in good health.”

In a Friday statement about the Global Sumud Flotilla, Nihad Awad, national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights group in the United States, said that “the detention of these humanitarian volunteers, including American citizens, is deeply troubling and completely unacceptable.”

“These are civilians engaged in delivering essential aid to people in desperate need in Gaza,” he continued. “Denying them legal counsel, holding them incommunicado, and putting them at risk for simply performing humanitarian work is a flagrant violation of human rights and the principles the United States stands for. We urge the US government to act immediately to secure their safe release and make clear that targeting Americans performing humanitarian missions will not be tolerated.”

Under President Donald Trump and his Democratic predecessor, the United States has provided Israel with diplomatic support on the global stage and billions of dollars in military aid. Joined at the White House on Monday by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—who is wanted by the International Criminal Court—Trump unveiled a proposed peace plan for Gaza.

In a long post on his Truth Social platform Friday morning, Trump railed against Hamas and gave the group that has governed Gaza for the past two decades until Sunday at 6:00 pm Eastern Time to agree to his proposal. Trump wrote, “If this LAST CHANCE agreement is not reached, all HELL, like no one has ever seen before, will break out against Hamas.”

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This week’s BBC Question Time took place in Belfast, and the Canary has received reports of pro-Palestine prospective audience members being turned away at the door.

BBC Question Time: rigged

Lisa McKee said she was invited to attend, but on arrival at the studio, she was rejected on the basis of her social media posts, and questions she had drafted. She was told by staff that she was “too political”. That seems an odd line of reasoning for a political discussion programme. The questions read:

What will it take for the UK government to change their current policies on sanctioning Israel, and demand a break of the siege on Gaza and an end to illegal occupation throughout Palestine? How is Stormont ensuring that the UK govt fulfils its legal obligation in the event of, what has already been declared, a genocide?

Neither of these are any more political than the first audience question of the night, where a man asked the panel:

Why do the government and left wing politicians continue to call concerned citizens far right when the vast majority are just concern about illegal immigration?

So detailed and specific questions about Britain’s participation in genocide – bad. Unsubstantiated immigration panic about the “vast majority” and how “concerned” they are – good.

Deirdre Linder also reported being refused entry due to an apparent “imbalance in the audience.” BBC Question Time staff told Linder that they had phoned earlier to inform her that she had not been accepted, but no record was present on her phone indicating such a call had been made. This meant a 100 mile round trip from Rostrevor was made for no reason. When she requested a manager to lodge a complaint, she was shepherded away by bouncers.

After then using a quarter of the programme’s time to frame the immigration non-issue as the most salient of our time – ahead of war, genocide, climate breakdown, the crippling cost of living – the discussion latterly moved to Gaza. The question was good – asking whether the current Trump/Blair/Netanyahu stitch-up disguised as a peace plan can work without the involvement of Palestinians. The rightful owners of Palestine have been almost entirely excluded from the proposals, which are currently being reviewed by Hamas.

Western civilisation? “I think it would be a good idea.” c. Gandhi

Trump, for his part, described the moment of its unveiling as “potentially one of the great days ever in civilisation.” That would imply that civilisation exists in a world where butchers like the US president and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu can stand in an opulent room and pontificate over the corpses of the likely 700,000 people they’ve murdered in Gaza.

On the BBC Question Time panel, Sinn Féin MP John Finucane was first to respond, acknowledging the lack of a Palestinian role in the so-called peace plan. He went on to say “serious questions” must be asked about so-called Israel’s “credibility as a sincere partner for peace.” Host Fiona Bruce was quick to suggest we ought to have similar concerns about Hamas. The latter have shown more willingness for peace than senior Israeli figures, with their 2017 charter accepting a two-state solution if it were to gain the approval of a majority of Palestinians. They have also adhered more strictly to ceasefires, and have continued to engage in peace talks, despite multiple murderous attacks on their negotiators.

Bruce also took issue with Finucane’s correct description of the “kidnapping” of Sinn Féin’s senator Chris Andrews by Israeli Genocide Forces (IGF). Andrews was taken in international waters when the Global Sumud Flotilla he was sailing on was blocked by Israeli naval vessels.

Crawley crawls up Netanyahu’s arse

The BBC then plumbed new depths today, with its flagship radio programme Talkback seeking to blame pro-Palestinian protest for Thursday’s violent attack at a Manchester synagogue, which left three dead. Kicking off, host William Crawley sombrely posed the question:

Should Palestinian street protests be paused…as a mark of respect and solidarity with our Jewish communities?

Crawley put this to Sue Pentel, a Jewish member of the Belfast branch of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), who responded:

The reason we felt that we could not stand down yesterday is because while we were marching and during the day over 70 Palestinians were killed. Some children died of starvation due to the Israeli blockade.

There are thousands of Jews involved in these demonstrations. All over the world, Jewish people are involved in standing up and saying “how can we mark the day of atonement when Israel is bombing and starving people in our name?”

Crawley went on to ventriloquise a hypothetical Jewish population of his own imagining, terrorised by equally fictitious antisemitic pro-Palestine protests:

If a large number of Jewish people around your protest feel threatened by it, feel it is fuelling antisemitism, feel they are living in the real world with the rhetorical or actual violent response that is generated by the atmosphere around those protests…if you were worried about it, then you might have a conversation with them about what it is that’s doing that.

If we want to take antisemitism out of the experience of these protests wouldn’t you talk to Jewish people about how you might do that.

Here Crawley – completely without evidence – suggested that Palestine protests are the cause of violence like that seen in Manchester. He had put this grotesque smear to People Before Profit activist Marc Mac Seáin, who responded:

I think that’s starting from a position that’s conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

Crawley then stammered, again without substantiation:

No it’s not, it’s literally not doing that.

When the necessity of putting pressure on one’s own government while it aids genocide was put to Crawley, he followed the standard BBC line of holocaust denial. This is despite the UN, the vast majority of genocide scholars, and Israeli human rights group B’Tselem describing it as such.

Asked by the Canary for comment on the discussion, Pentel said:

Anti-Zionism is as old as Zionism itself and there is a growing movement of Jewish people globally who oppose Israeli war crimes, land theft, starvation and genocide. I am one of many, so it was important to be heard on the radio, but to link peaceful protests against genocide and starvation with the violent aggression in Manchester was absolutely unacceptable and frankly insulting.

It was in itself putting those who peacefully oppose Israel, oppose Apartheid, and genocide into the same category as the perpetrator of this attack.

Zionist pile-on as right to protest attacked yet again

The BBC Question Time debacle marks another low in what has been a cynical free-for-all on the Palestine movement since the terrible Manchester attack.

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood provided us with the limited contents of her largely vacant head, saying:

I do think that carrying on in this way feels un-British, it feels wrong, and i would ask people who are thinking about going on protest this weekend – take a step back.

It’s true that opposing genocide, land-theft and ethnic cleansing would be a very un-British thing to do, given the nation spent several hundred years participating in those crimes. Not to mention the fact that Britain was key in setting up the Zionist entity that is the source of ire for demonstrators.

Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis piled in too, saying Palestine protest and “what happened in yesterday’s attack” are “directly linked.”

Meanwhile Novara’s Rivkah Brown lamented how the media treated perhaps the most relevant figure one might find in the current context – “Jewish lad from Salford” and Green Party leader Zack Polanski. Brown remarked on “parachuted-in Israel lobbyists” who “use a tragedy to defend Israel”, while Polanski is “subjected to hostile interviews” for his pro-Palestine views.

Defund Question Time and defund the BBC

The BBC, as genocide supporters two years into a slaughter which is overwhelmingly evidenced, can at this point be considered irredeemable. Just as it’s up to all of us to build alternatively political movements, we need to do likewise with media. If you’d like to hasten the BBC’s demise, you can do so here.

Funding the BBC is at this point little better than putting a bullet in an IGF rifle – cancel your license and tell them Palestine sent you.

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By Robert Freeman

Robert Freeman, Author at Canary

Articles by Robert Freeman for Canary

^{Robert Freeman (The Canary)}

A man attacked Jews in a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur in a despicable act of terror and hate. Yet within hours, much of the media coverage had shifted from reporting the crime to implicating Islam - and by extension British Muslims.

The Daily Mail arguably led the way, with its front page screaming: “He was an Islamic terrorist” - a predictable but telling framing. Other tabloids also branded the attack as terrorism, but none with the Mail’s intensity.

This followed a day of framing that transformed the action of a single individual into a reflection of a faith followed by more than two billion people globally.

Some would insist that the attacker, who was killed by police, was just as the Mail described him. But describing the perpetrator as “Islamic” is itself misleading. Extrajudicial killings and targeting of innocents are explicitly forbidden in Islamic teaching. Any journalist or headline writer should know this.

Yet there is now an increasing chasm between what is obvious or intelligible, and what is actually being delivered by Britain’s right-wing media outlets. It no longer matters whether the term “Islamic terrorist” is a misnomer; it functions as a licence for Islamophobia, conflating a criminal act with an entire religion.

UK media revels in hate after Manchester synagogue attack 

Front-page headlines scream that Islam is to blame, conflating a criminal act with an entire religion

^{Middle East Eye}

The best reason for nations to switch to power from the sun and wind is that it will reduce, by some degree, the severity of the climate crisis (and save millions of lives lost each year to pollution). The second best reason is that it’s cheaper than fossil fuel, and any nation who doesn’t shift will be stuck with an economy running on expensive energy. But it seems to me—not a military analyst, but a fairly good tea-leaves reader—that the war in Ukraine may be adding a third to the list: its comparative invulnerability to attack.

As the world has begun to figure out, something important has happened amidst the carnage of Russia’s immoral invasion: warfare has changed forever, with the small drone quickly replacing much of the military hardware we grew accustomed to in the 20th century. Drones have been ubiquitous along the front lines, where the no-man’s zone between the armies is lethally patrolled by squadrons of drones able to take out tanks, troop transports, and pretty much anything else—that explains much of the stasis of the last two years; the competing forces are largely pinned down.

Over the course of the war, by sheer necessity, Ukraine has developed a formidable drone industry, and increasingly it is using them against a singular set of targets: the oil refining and transport infrastructure spread out across its sprawling foe. Russia has formidable air defenses, of course—Ukraine couldn’t fly a bomber across 1,400 kilometers of the country’s airspace to bomb a refinery. But the small and comparatively slow drones have proved equal to the task. As the FT reported last week,

Sixteen of Russia’s 38 refineries have been hit since the start of August, some of them multiple times, including one of Russia’s largest fuel-processing facilities, the 340,000 barrel-a-day plant at Ryazan, close to Moscow.

The strikes have disrupted more than 1 million barrels a day of Russia’s refining capacity, according to Energy Aspects, a research group. Diesel exports, if they maintain the current rate, will fall to the lowest monthly total in September since 2020, according to both OilX and Vortexa, which track cargoes.

“It seems to be the most effective campaign that Ukraine has carried out so far,” said Benedict George, head of European petroleum products pricing at Argus, which reports commodity prices.

It's hard to drone a solar panel

The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

^{Bill McKibben (The Crucial Years)}

Jon Harrison, appointed in January, had been key to broad changes in military branch’s policy and budgeting offices

Pete Hegseth fires US navy chief of staff

^{Adam Gabbatt (The Guardian)}

Middle East Eye talks to Co-Deputy Leader Mothin Ali and party organisers about left-wing politics and their vision for Britain

'We're the future, don't wait around for Corbyn and Sultana': Inside the Green Party conference

It's the Green Party's moment and the membership knows it. In mid-September, I was in the Bournemouth International Centre covering the Liberal Democrat party conference. The colour yellow featured prominently, and the mood was calm and genteel.

^{Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)}

Plain old pictures are out; content is in.

Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo

What was once a simple photo sharing app is now a platform for Content with a capital C.

^{Allison Johnson (The Verge)}

Japanese retailers are warning customers that they’re running out of Asahi Super Dry, the country’s most popular beer, following a major cyberattack on the producer.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/cybernews.co…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

The federal government said Friday it's suing Uber for allegedly discriminating against passengers with disabilities.

https://apnews.com/article/uber-service-dogs-discrimination-department-justice-6c0f395b4084c27ac4d400f0ad78f3b9

ICE plans to hire contractors to scan platforms to target people for deportation.

ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team

^{WIRED (Ars Technica)}

Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cell phone while in Minnesota

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White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland

Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cellphone while in Minnesota

^{Adam Gabbatt (The Guardian)}

Boeing's new flagship aircraft, the 777X, has been delayed again, and the first delivery is now expected in 2027, seven years late.

Boeing 777X Deliveries Delayed To 2027, As Certification Issues Drag On

^{Ben Schlappig (One Mile at a Time)}

Justice Jackson accuses her colleagues of "repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference."

The Supreme Court just took legal status from 300,000 Venezuelans

Justice Jackson accuses her colleagues of "repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference."

^{Mother Jones}

BBC News goes inside the lab powering computers with 'mini brains' grown from human cells.

Scientists race to make 'living' computers powered by human cells

^{Zoe Kleinman (BBC News)}

A lack of officers didn't stop cops dragging older Defend Our Juries supporters up off the floor, with one man seemingly unconscious

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Cops outnumbered as Defend Our Juries returns to central London - Canary

^{Steve Topple (The Canary)}

Artists aren’t rushing back to Spotify just because Daniel Ek changed his title.

Daniel Ek stepping down changes nothing for Spotify

Musicians who’ve pulled their music from Spotify over royalties, AI, or drones aren’t impressed by Daniel Ek’s shift from CEO to chairman.

^{Terrence O'Brien (The Verge)}

A 13-year-old and a four-year-old died in shooting as police say all parties involved have been detained

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Two children killed and two critically injured in shooting near Houston

^{Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)}

The quake was at a depth of 10km.

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Magnitude 6 earthquake strikes east coast of Honshu, Japan, GFZ says

The quake was at a depth of 10km. Read more at straitstimes.com.

^ST

Serene Air has been grounded by Pakistani regulators, as all of the carrier's planes are allegedly broken. What's going on here?

Pakistan’s Serene Air Grounded By Regulators, All Planes Broken

^{Ben Schlappig (One Mile at a Time)}

Several international human rights organisations — including the International Justice Forum (Istanbul), the Geneva Center for Democracy and Human Rights, and the International Union of Jurists (Geneva Branch) — have urged the UN Human Rights Council to establish an independent and impartial international commission of inquiry into Israel’s attacks on the Fleet of Resilience, which attempted to deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip in September and October 2025.

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The group leveraged dozens of social media accounts and “routinely used” AI-generated imagery and video to stoke unrest among Iran’s population, according to Citizen Lab.

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Researchers say Israeli government likely behind AI-generated disinfo campaign in Iran

^{Derek B. Johnson (CyberScoop)}

Public tests coming very soon.

Microsoft reportedly mulls ad-infested free Xbox Cloud Gaming plan — Game Pass Ultimate subscriber allegedly catches ad during game loading

^{Hassam Nasir (Tom's Hardware)}

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is now 50% more expensive, and people are displeased

https://www.gamesradar.com/games/following-its-latest-xbox-game-pass-price-jump-microsoft-immediately-tries-to-justify-the-decision-with-more-day-one-releases-and-increased-value/

California's Department of Insurance has been warning Tesla to fix its claims process since 2022, but consumer complaints have skyrocketed anyways.

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We have a Macbook Air mid 2013 and no matter what distro I tried, making wi-fi work was pain due to Broadcom drivers and not having ethernet port. Basically had to install the drivers via phone tethering.

However, probably because of the drivers, there are certain problems like disconnecting out of blue or really slow connection or cannot reconnect unless reboot the PC.

So I want to ask, if you have this Macbook and have Linux installed, which distro you're using it with? How is it?

Recently I installed Bazzite on a home computer and printers, Xbox controller, iPhone connection, everything the owners need worked out of the box. I'm wondering, would it also work fine with this Macbook too?

Edit: I added these to a blocklist, which I created here >> /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl.conf

This is for BCM4360 adapter.

blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist bcma
blacklist brcm80211
blacklist brcmfmac
blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist ssb

Edit 2: Installed LMDE, which wi-fi was working even on live ISO. However, same problems also present here. It has dkms version of the driver but I don't sense any difference. Same connection drops, same random slowness.

Also found this thread. It describes my issues, but sadly no replies.

Edit 3: Currently experimenting with iwd since I found out this thread from Reddit, surprisingly not deleted, yet.

I installed iwd, disabled NetworkManager, enabled iwd.

sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager
sudo systemctl disable NetworkManager
sudo systemctl start iwd
sudo systemctl enable iwd

[Scan]
DisablePeriodicScan=true
[DriverQuirks]
DefaultInterface=wl
[General]
EnableNetworkConfiguration=true
[Rank]
BandModifier5Ghz=9.0 

Then edited /etc/resolv.conf.

nameserver 192.168.1.3 #pi-hole IP

Also installed iwgtk to manage iwd with UI.

Seems fine so far, will edit again if it's good or not.

Correctly install and configure the drivers for the Broadcom BCM4360 Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter 14e4:43a0 rev 03 for Ubuntu 24.04

I've installed Ubuntu 24.04 on an old macbook air. I followed the steps and tips found in a popular answer -> Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers However nothing seems to have my wifi work smo...

^{Ask Ubuntu}

OCuLink or Thunderbolt? That is the question!

OCuLink outpaces Thunderbolt 5 in Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti tests — latter up to 14% slower on average in gaming benchmarks

^{Anton Shilov (Tom's Hardware)}

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Reports are emerging that Israeli authorities have abused activist Greta Thunberg while illegally holding her in detention.

Greta Thunberg beaten by Israeli authorities

On Saturday 4 October, the Israeli occupation authorities deported 137 of the kidnapped international solidarity activists who participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the humanitarian siege on Gaza, in the second deportation operation in a matter of days, after returning four Italians to their country on Friday 3 October.

One of the deported activists who arrived at Istanbul airport on Saturday recounted shocking details of what he described as ‘brutal assaults’ on some activists during their detention, telling reporters:

They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair in front of our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others.

She’s still a little kid. They made her suffer.

BREAKING: Turkish activist and Sumud Flotilla participant Ersin Celik:

“They [Israelis] dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” pic.twitter.com/gV6SeMZr7U

— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws1) October 4, 2025

Separately, the Guardian reported that an email to Swedish authorities said Greta Thunberg was suffering from:

dehydration. She has received insufficient amounts of both water and food. She also stated that she had developed rashes which she suspects were caused by bedbugs. She spoke of harsh treatment and said she had been sitting for long periods on hard surfaces.

Meanwhile, other released activists spoke of similar degrading treatment.

Turkish activist Samanur Sonmaz Yaman, a member of the flotilla, recounts details of the occupation’s oppression and abuse of veiled women from the boats:

Occupation soldiers ripped off our headscarves during our arrest and took them from us, and our non-veiled friends gave us their shirts to cover our heads.

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Adalah, the legal centre that monitors the cases of detainees, said that detention conditions at Ketziot prison in the Negev desert are ‘deteriorating alarmingly,’ amid reports of ill-treatment and violence against some detainees.

A spokesperson for the organisation said that it is difficult at this stage to provide a comprehensive assessment, but confirmed that the mistreatment primarily affects non-European detainees, especially those whose countries do not have diplomatic missions in Israel.

Ongoing Israeli violence

This incident is the latest chapter in the confrontation between Israel and the international solidarity flotillas that recently set sail in an attempt to break the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip for more than 18 years, amid growing international warnings about targeting solidarity activists and civil society activists, and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Strip, which is suffering from famine and shortages of medicine and fuel.

Israel intercepted 40 ships in the Global Solidarity Flotilla that set sail to reach Gaza to break the blockade and deliver humanitarian aid amid the ongoing war of extermination on Gaza, which is now entering its third year.

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2025-10-04 17:57:18

Israeli authorities have beaten Greta Thunberg, made her kiss Zionist flag

cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/72882

Reports are emerging that Israeli authorities have abused activist Greta Thunberg while illegally holding her in detention.

Greta Thunberg beaten by Israeli authorities

On Saturday 4 October, the Israeli occupation authorities deported 137 of the kidnapped international solidarity activists who participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the humanitarian siege on Gaza, in the second deportation operation in a matter of days, after returning four Italians to their country on Friday 3 October.

One of the deported activists who arrived at Istanbul airport on Saturday recounted shocking details of what he described as ‘brutal assaults’ on some activists during their detention, telling reporters:

They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair in front of our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others.

She’s still a little kid. They made her suffer.

BREAKING: Turkish activist and Sumud Flotilla participant Ersin Celik:

“They [Israelis] dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” pic.twitter.com/gV6SeMZr7U

— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws1) October 4, 2025

Separately, the Guardian reported that an email to Swedish authorities said Greta Thunberg was suffering from:

dehydration. She has received insufficient amounts of both water and food. She also stated that she had developed rashes which she suspects were caused by bedbugs. She spoke of harsh treatment and said she had been sitting for long periods on hard surfaces.

Meanwhile, other released activists spoke of similar degrading treatment.

Turkish activist Samanur Sonmaz Yaman, a member of the flotilla, recounts details of the occupation’s oppression and abuse of veiled women from the boats:

Occupation soldiers ripped off our headscarves during our arrest and took them from us, and our non-veiled friends gave us their shirts to cover our heads.

thecanary.co/wp-content/upload…

Adalah, the legal centre that monitors the cases of detainees, said that detention conditions at Ketziot prison in the Negev desert are ‘deteriorating alarmingly,’ amid reports of ill-treatment and violence against some detainees.

A spokesperson for the organisation said that it is difficult at this stage to provide a comprehensive assessment, but confirmed that the mistreatment primarily affects non-European detainees, especially those whose countries do not have diplomatic missions in Israel.

Ongoing Israeli violence

This incident is the latest chapter in the confrontation between Israel and the international solidarity flotillas that recently set sail in an attempt to break the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip for more than 18 years, amid growing international warnings about targeting solidarity activists and civil society activists, and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Strip, which is suffering from famine and shortages of medicine and fuel.

Israel intercepted 40 ships in the Global Solidarity Flotilla that set sail to reach Gaza to break the blockade and deliver humanitarian aid amid the ongoing war of extermination on Gaza, which is now entering its third year.

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