Greta Thunberg releases second, personal video after release from Israeli abduction

Swedish humanitarian activist Greta Thunberg gave her first press conference this afternoon since her release from abduction, along with hundreds of other activists, by Israel during their mission to bring baby food and other essentials to Gaza. Now, she has released a second, more personal video.

Greta Thunberg: not having it

As the Canary had previously reported, the Israeli occupation authorities deported 137 of the abducted volunteers who participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla to break Israel’s starvation siege of Gaza. Several of the activists were brutally assaulted – including Greta Thunberg, with one activist confirming that:

They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair in front of our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others.

She’s still a little kid. They made her suffer.

The Guardian reported that an email to Swedish authorities said Greta Thunberg was had been deprived of water and was suffering from dehydration and pest bites:

She has received insufficient amounts of both water and food. She also stated that she had developed rashes which she suspects were caused by bedbugs. She spoke of harsh treatment and said she had been sitting for long periods on hard surfaces.

In her defiant press conference, Greta Thunberg laid into colluding governments and Israeli barbarity, but in her second, much more personal video, she talks to supporters about the plight of Palestinians, the evils of Israel’s racist occupation, making clear that neither she nor any of the other volunteers want what Israel did to them to be a distraction from the real issues of Palestinian survival, self-determination and freedom from occupation and oppression.

Watch below (auto-subtitled by Skwawkbox):

More than ten thousand Palestinians are held by Israel without charge, including children, often facing violence and torture. Experts say that Israel has murdered almost 700,000 people, two-thirds of them children, while the criminal starvation blockade is starving the 1.5 million or so who somehow survived the genocide so far.

Featured image via the Canary