Greta Thunberg landed in Athens on Monday alongside 160 other nationals from 16 different European nations expelled to Greece by Israel for taking part in serving aid to Gaza through an aid flotilla.
The 22-year-old climate activist and campaigner from Sweden was among the hundreds of people detained for being on a 45-vessel flotilla that unsuccessfully tried to break through an Israeli blockade to deliver aid.
The UN shared how famine has taken hold in that region of Palestine after two years of a devastating war.point 382 |
At the Athens International Airport, activists unfurled a giant Palestinian flag in the arrivals halls and chanted loud slogans featuring ‘Freedom of Palestine’ and ‘Long live the flotilla’ to welcome Thunberg and other activists back to Europe.point 233 | 1
On arrival at the airport, Thunberg mentioned how the Global Sumud Flotilla was the largest ever attempt to break Israel’s illegal and inhumane siege through the sea route. She even mentioned how such a mission existing in the first place is a huge shame on the authorities’ part that it even exists.
She urged the world to act to stop Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. ‘We are not even seeing the bare minimum take place from our governments’ – she concluded.