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Is­raeli forces seized a Gaza-bound aid boat and de­tained Gre­ta Thun­berg and oth­er ac­tivists who were on board ear­ly Mon­day, en­forc­ing a long­stand­ing block­ade of the Pales­tin­ian ter­ri­to­ry that has been tight­ened dur­ing the war with Hamas.

The ac­tivists had set out to protest Is­rael’s on­go­ing mil­i­tary cam­paign in the Gaza Strip, which is among the dead­liest and most de­struc­tive since World War II, and its re­stric­tions on the en­try of hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid, both of which have put the ter­ri­to­ry of some 2 mil­lion Pales­tini­ans at risk of famine.

The Free­dom Flotil­la Coali­tion, which had or­gan­ised the voy­age, said the ac­tivists were “kid­napped by Is­raeli forces” while try­ing to de­liv­er des­per­ate­ly need­ed aid to the ter­ri­to­ry.