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Is­rael de­port­ed ac­tivist Gre­ta Thun­berg on Tues­day, a day af­ter the Gaza-bound ship she was on was seized by the Is­raeli mil­i­tary.

Speak­ing up­on ar­rival in Paris en route to her home coun­try of Swe­den, Thun­berg called for the re­lease of the oth­er ac­tivists who were de­tained aboard the Madleen. She de­scribed a “quite chaot­ic and un­cer­tain” sit­u­a­tion dur­ing the de­ten­tion.

The con­di­tions they faced “are ab­solute­ly noth­ing com­pared to what peo­ple are go­ing through in Pales­tine and es­pe­cial­ly Gaza right now,” she said. The trip was meant to protest Is­raeli re­stric­tions on aid to Gaza’s pop­u­la­tion of over 2 mil­lion peo­ple af­ter 20 months of war, ac­cord­ing to the Free­dom Flotil­la Coali­tion, the group be­hind the jour­ney.