Israel's navy has intercepted all but one of the boats in an international flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip and detained those aboard, its Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday. The group, which included Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, was sailing toward the Palestinian enclave with humanitarian aid to attempt to break Israel's blockade.
At the peak of its strength, the convoy included more than 40 civilian boats carrying lawmakers, lawyers and human rights advocates. Some 440 participants were "forcibly taken from their vessels" in international waters, the organizers of the Global Sumud Flotilla said in a statement Thursday afternoon local time.
The Foreign Ministry said "all the passengers are safe and in good health" and that it intended to bring them first to Israel and then deport them to Europe.
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