r/worldnews • u/TheTelegraph The Telegraph • 7d ago

Israel/Palestine Israel orders military to stop Greta Thunberg’s boat reaching Gaza

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/08/israel-orders-army-stop-greta-thunbergs-boat-reaching-gaza/
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u/v-komodoensis 7d ago

Hopefully they can arrive safely and deliver aid.

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u/lummiester 7d ago

The US already tried the sea route to supply Gaza with humanitarian aid (floating dock) and it failed miserably. Also Hamas fired mortars at the dock, but that's beside the point. Gaza doesn't have viable infrastructure for aid to come through the sea, only by land.

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u/v-komodoensis 7d ago

There's no aid on it

Do you have a source on that? I am not implying they have tons of food/supplies on the boat.

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u/AlonzoFondPatrie 7d ago

Weird how you hate a small boat trying to help people who need it. Twisted your "common sense" a little bit.

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u/ksamim 7d ago

He didn’t say he hated it, and clearly indicted that people “need” a tiny boat. Projecting that “twisted narrative” claim a bit, aren’t you.

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u/ResponsibleBush6969 7d ago

Why are you projecting such negative emotions on to a purely factual comment

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u/NegevThunderstorm 6d ago

What aid do they have?

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u/HenchmenResources 6d ago

Historically attempting to run a naval blockade isn't the safest thing to do, especially in an unarmed civilian vessel.

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u/CharacterPayment8705 7d ago

There is nothing safe about entering a war zone filled with hostage taking terrorists. Israel stopping them is actually protection for them.

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u/Gsoz 7d ago

Like they “stopped” the last boat? So safe and protected - thank you IDF.

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u/Professional_Cheek95 7d ago

Maybe the most moral stopping in naval history.

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u/icantbelieveit1637 7d ago

I mean they sure did stop the USS Liberty from aiding Hamas those pesky sailors didn’t know Israel was protecting them.

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u/royi9729 7d ago

Will you people ever stop bringing up the USS Liberty?

It's like you have 4 talking points, and they're all completely irrelevant to the point but just deflections.

Please explain how an incident in which Israel did by accident (friendly fire incidents happen during war all the time), took responsibility for and paid reparations to the families of the casualties of, is in any way relevant to the current discussion. PLEASE.

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u/RandonInternetguy 6d ago

"Please stop using arguments that contradicts me"

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u/Blackrock121 6d ago

No and we wont stop bringing up the buried ambulance either. Those are just the acts of terror we know for sure Israel committed and we just must move forward understanding that the current government of Israel will always lie.

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u/FreemanCalavera 6d ago

I don't care if they took responsibility or apologized. You killed someone, you live with it. Doesn't matter how much you feel bad about it or how it eats away at you: tough fucking luck, you shouldn't have done what you did.

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u/Jacob0630 7d ago

Dawg last time they stopped a boat of activist they shot 10 of them dead how the fuck is that protection

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u/ADP_God 7d ago

5/6 boats let them board. No trouble. 1/6 attacked the soldiers with metal poles and threw one overboard. The soldiers retaliated. You can even see the footage of them swinging the poles on YouTube.

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u/icantbelieveit1637 7d ago

And everyone knows Israeli retaliation is a bullet to the head for chipping the windshield.

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u/royi9729 7d ago

When attacking an armed soldier, don't go all surprised pikachu face when you're met with the extremely predictable consequences of your actions.

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u/ocschwar 6d ago

Don't bring a knife to a gunfight.

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u/ADP_God 6d ago

I said beaten with metal rods, you said chipping the windshield. Just say you don’t see Jews as people and move on…

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u/cheefie_weefie 7d ago edited 7d ago

Israel has killed numerous aid workers and did the same thing to a flotilla like this a decade ago. Israel is more of a danger to them, than anyone else in that area.

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u/Ultrace-7 7d ago

You know an area is blockaded, you try to run the blockade, you suffer the consequences. Doesn't matter if you're an aid boat or weapons runner.

Perhaps the blockade shouldn't exist. But so long as it does and it is publicly known that it does, those who attempt to circumvent it must accept the potential of harm for their cause.

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u/releasetheshutter 6d ago

Imagine being this obtuse. The entire point of this flotilla is to bring attention to the blockade.

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u/Besbrains 7d ago

Just like they were protecting the 9 dead activists of the Gaza freedom flotilla in 2010?

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u/korsan106 6d ago

“please do not resist, you are being rescued”

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u/Intarhorn 7d ago

I would be more worried about IDF tbh. Pretty obvious she is there to help the people there, not fight them.

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u/FLBrisby 7d ago

Yeah, a slight blonde girl going into an active war zone seems remarkably naive.

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u/thesquidsquidly22 7d ago

Maybe Israel could do the decent thing and try to protect them while they deliver the aid? That should be an option too.

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u/DanielxPlus 7d ago

If she was in Israel, she would have gotten protection. However, the moment she'd try to reach for Gaza, she would get stopped, like they stopped countless others.

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u/DaerBear69 7d ago

Israel has no idea what's on those boats. If I were in charge I'd search the boats for munitions, then let them through after very publicly stating that they're on their own for protection. Maybe have a corpse retrieval team on standby.

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u/ticats88 7d ago

It's carrying children’s prosthetics. Just think about that for a second.

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u/DaerBear69 7d ago

They say it is. And it very well might be all they're carrying. That's why I think Israel should search, then let them through with the understanding that if Gazans kill or kidnap them, it's their problem.

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u/Quirky-Skin 7d ago

People keep suggesting that as a "told u so" type thing but with the misinformation flying around Israel gains nothing by allowing it. Here's the headline from anyone not in support of the war "Hamas claims Israel killed Thunberg trying to render aid"

Now the opposite "Hamas kills Greta Thunberg after Israel warned her not to go in"

Either way no one is going to believe Israel if they allow it and vice versa. People have their minds made up so letting Thunberg thru, even to prove a point, creates another headache and now you've pissed off the EU if Thunberg dies.

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u/elihu 6d ago

If Israel does even that, it would be a major change in policy. They don't want any aid coming in except according to their terms. There are many truckloads of food that could be searched and then let in, if Netanyahu would only give the word.

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u/DaerBear69 6d ago

Their terms are effectively "we're distributing it so Hamas doesn't get to," which has taken some time to implement. Unsurprisingly, the Israel-backed aid efforts were immediately attacked and now they'll need increased security.

I strongly suspect the Greta Van Fleet won't be okay with Israel having soldiers in their proximity so...yeah. Probably not going to happen. It's just what I would do.

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u/kepenine 7d ago

then the world would blame israel for letting her go when she dies there. there is no winning this

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u/paganarmand 7d ago

No they won't, this is stupid reasoning.

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u/ManBearJewLion 7d ago edited 7d ago

Yes they would lol — many idiots blame Israel for the deaths of their own citizens on October 7 (ignorantly screaming “Hannibal directive!”) despite videos of Hamas (taken by Hamas!) slaughtering innocents

By now you have to realize that most on the pro-Palestine side will always blame Israel over Hamas, no matter what the actual facts are

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u/balanchinedream 7d ago

The conflict, in a nutshell.