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Showing Original Post only (View all)Greta Thunberg was Tortured (confirmed) [View all]
Last edited Fri Oct 17, 2025, 01:50 AM - Edit history (1)
Greta Thunberg and her associates were taken from a boats carrying food aid to Gaza in international waters.
While held prisoner, she was beaten, sexually assaulted (forced to strip naked multiple times in a public area, beaten and had photos taken of her while naked) deprived of water and food, left in a cage exposed to direct sunlight for days.
Greta was then taken into a building to be searched and undressed.
The guards have no empathy or humanity, and they keep taking selfies with me. Theres a lot I dont remember. So much is happening at once. Youre in shock. Youre in pain, but you go into a state of trying to stay calm.
The guards have no empathy or humanity, and they keep taking selfies with me. Theres a lot I dont remember. So much is happening at once. Youre in shock. Youre in pain, but you go into a state of trying to stay calm.
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She was driven on to the prison. Outside, she was forced to take off her clothes again, she says.
And for anyone that says it didn't happen, here is Ben-Gvir, Israel's minister of internal security saying this:
Ben-Gvir himself later told the media about his visit to the prison and boasted about how harshly they were treated. He described it as a policy that he himself had ordered.
I am proud that we treat flotilla activists as supporters of terrorism, he told the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. They should experience the conditions in Ketziot prison and think twice before returning to Israel. Thats how it works.
I am proud that we treat flotilla activists as supporters of terrorism, he told the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. They should experience the conditions in Ketziot prison and think twice before returning to Israel. Thats how it works.
The international community stood by and willingly let Israel torture and sexually assault their citizens and failed to condemn it or in the case of the Swedish government, to blame the victims.
Source: https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25LgKq/greta-thunberg-they-kicked-me-every-time-the-flag-touched-my-face
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It was almost too much when we still had a democracy, now it will never be too much. nt
yaesu
Oct 15
#5
So true, as we are seeing in real time, tRUMP, and his pathologically messed up idiots compete w/ each other on
SWBTATTReg
Oct 15
#43
and of all the people of the world, I would have expected the Israelis to have avoided this kind of behavior----
Jack Valentino
Oct 15
#87
Beaten and tortured simply for wanting to feed starving people whom Israel wants to kill.
Lonestarblue
Oct 15
#8
Greta is like Jane Goodall in that her strength comes from within and in doing the right thing.
Botany
Oct 15
#10
In the majority of the cases, the U.S. is directing and financing the evil.
Shoeless Louis
Oct 15
#93
Greta and other humanitarians are dangerous terrorists armed with food and medicine.
Ping Tung
Oct 15
#14
Who is surprised by this despicable behavior? Seems totally on brand to me.
littlemissmartypants
Oct 15
#16
I'm having flashbacks to Abu Gareb in Iraq when the Americans tortured prisioners.
OMGWTF
Oct 15
#17
You're linking to a right-wing Russian state-sponsored propaganda twitter account in support of the claim.
lapucelle
Thursday
#127
Not a dupe, your link goes to a 10 day old article, this OP article is from today & is from the best Swedish major paper
Celerity
Oct 15
#38
Does beating up and sexually harassing an autistic girl come before or after that one?
meadowlander
Oct 15
#69
Not to diminish it, but US prisoners and ICE detainees are also subjected to invasive body searches
lostnfound
Thursday
#129
They probably should have hit that point when they helped South Africa develop nuclear weapons.
name not needed
Thursday
#132
Aftonbladet (Swedish: [ˈftɔnˌblɑːdɛt], lit. "The evening paper") is a Swedish daily tabloid newspaper
lostincalifornia
Oct 15
#47
It is offensive, but not surprising. There are plenty of American Jews who were against how this war
lostincalifornia
Oct 15
#83
My post attempted to convey the fact that this a self-perpetuating Horror show.
BurnDoubt
Oct 15
#66
You are right. They have had a target on their backs for most of recorded history.
BurnDoubt
Thursday
#105
Why would we expect More? Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC as a war criminal
Bread and Circuses
Oct 15
#76
I wanted to hear what she had to say and I was hoping the reports were wrong.
BlueTsunami2018
Thursday
#118
According to AI - Ben Givr visited the prison when flotilla people first arrived
womanofthehills
Thursday
#125