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The Israeli troops have taken control of the British-flagged charity vessel Madleen, which had tried to break a naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. The boat--operated by the pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC)--with its crew of 12, including activist Greta Thunberg, is now heading to a port in Israel, officials said on Sunday.

The FCC posted a pre-recorded "SOS" video of Thunberg on X and said, " the volunteers on 'Madleen' have been kidnapped by Israeli forces. Pressure their foreign ministries and help us keep them safe!"

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 56 points 1 month ago

If those Israelis do ANYTHING to Hurt these Famous Activist then the US will have NO CHOICE but to Give them MORE BOMBS!

-Republicans AND Democrats!

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At least they didn't blow the boat outta the water. Survive and fight another day

[–] Domino@lemmings.world 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unless they do something to her while they're holding her hostage.

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly who says that they will let them go. They could very well hold them indefinitely call them terrorist and torture them. I don't see a single powerful government intervening when by law they should. I hope they stay safe and are released.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

There is little to gain from torturing them.

[–] cubism_pitta@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think a doomer mindset is the answer on this.

Putting Greta on the ship was a dare, what happens next we have to wait and see.

I don't disagree that this is likely to be bad. However, I also have to imagine that both Greta Thunberg and the FFC knew going in that this was the most likely outcome.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And they'll send another boat next. They said the next boat will include US American activists.

And they'll keep sending boats until they can break the siege. In the meantime, it forces countries to confront Israel as they kidnap their aid volunteers.

Turkey, for example, already called Israel a terrorist state and demanded release of their national who was on the boat. As more countries have more of their citizens kidnapped by Israel, we could see those countries ship less weapons to Israel, which would force them to cease fire (because Israel absolutely cannot afford this slaughter without foreign support)

[–] arrow74@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We must demand that Israel release the hostages. If that requires bombing the country and cutting off all imports so be it

[–] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

It's just the right thing to do, according to the Israelis themselves.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

Dude they have like tens of thousands of hostages.

The problem with this is that they just re kidnap the hostages again shortly after.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Did anyone actually think this would end in any other way than their boat being captured and the people sent back to Europe? What did you imagine?

[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago
[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

To prove a point