On Monday, Israel announced that it had deported 171 further activists from the Gaza Flotilla, including Greta Thunberg and Luxembourgish activist Nora Huberty.

The foreign ministry said in a post on X that "171 additional provocateurs from the Hamas–Sumud flotilla, including Greta Thunberg, were deported today from Israel to Greece and Slovakia".

It added that the deportees were citizens of several countries, including Greece, Italy, France and the United States.
Photos shared with the post showed Thunberg alongside two other women walking through Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport wearing the grey tracksuits used in Israeli prisons.

The Israeli foreign ministry told AFP that 138 activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla were still in Israeli custody.

Luxembourgish participant deported

Nora Rosa Fellens Huberty, the Luxembourgish national that participated in the flotilla, was also deported. RTL had previously been informed that the Belgian ambassador met her over the weekend and confirmed she was "doing well".

Over 400 people prevented from reaching Palestine

The 45-vessel flotilla had been aiming to break an Israeli blockade to deliver aid to Gaza, where the United Nations says famine has taken hold after two years of devastating conflict.

Israel started intercepting the flotilla vessels in international waters on Wednesday. An Israeli official said on Thursday that boats with more than 400 people on board had been prevented from reaching the Palestinian territory.

International activists who arrived in Istanbul after being deported from Israel said on Saturday they had been subjected to violence and "treated like animals".

In its post on X on Monday, Israel's foreign ministry said that "all the legal rights of the participants in this PR stunt were and will continue to be fully upheld."

"The lies they are spreading are part of their pre-planned fake news campaign," it added.