A detained Gaza aid flotilla participant attacked a female prison staff member during an examination, the Foreign Ministry has said<\/p>\n
Israel has accused a Gaza aid flotilla activist of biting a member of prison staff, claiming it was \u201cthe only violent incident\u201d\u00a0involving those detained. The statement came in response to allegations of mistreatment during the activists\u2019 detention.
\nMembers of the Global Sumud Flotilla, including climate activist Greta Thunberg, were attempting to breach the blockade of Gaza by sea, where the United Nations says famine has taken hold after two years of devastating conflict.
\nThe flotilla was stopped by the Israeli Navy on Friday. According to fellow activists, those detained were \u201ctortured\u201d and subjected to \u201charsh treatment\u201d in an Israeli prison. Israeli officials later rejected the accusations.<\/p>\n
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Israel deports Greta Thunberg<\/p>\n
\u201cAll the legal rights of the participants in this PR stunt were and will continue to be fully upheld. The lies they are spreading are part of their pre-planned fake news campaign,\u201d the Israeli Foreign Ministry wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.
\n\u201cThe only violent incident came from a Hamas\u2013Sumud provocateur who bit a female medical staff member at Ketsiyot Prison,\u201d it added.
\nThe flotilla activists have not yet responded to the biting allegations.
\nThunberg was among more than 170 activists deported to Greece and Slovakia on Monday. The group comprised citizens from 19 countries, including the US, UK, Germany, and France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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