Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has spoken out publicly for the first time since her release from an Israeli prison, where she said she was beaten and forced to kiss the Israeli flag.
Thunberg was among 171 people deported by Israeli authorities after being detained for participating in the Gaza aid flotilla. The group was flown to Greece and Slovakia after their release.
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg spoke at Eleftherios Venizelos Airport in Athens, the Greek capital, stressing that her personal experience was not what mattered.
“I can talk for a very long time about our abuse and mistreatment in our prison, believe me. But that is not a story. Let me be very clear, genocide is happening before our eyes, genocide that is being broadcast live,” Thunberg said.
She stressed that “no one has the privilege to say that we are not aware of what is happening.”
“No one in the future will be able to say that we did not know,” she said.
Thunberg accused Israel of “continuing to exacerbate and escalate genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, trying to wipe out an entire population, an entire nation in front of you.”
“We cannot take our eyes off Gaza, all the places in the world that are suffering, living at the forefront of this common system: Congo, Sudan, Afghanistan, Gaza and many, many others. What we are doing is the bare minimum,” she added.
She said that “I will never understand how people can be so evil.”
“That you would deliberately starve millions of people who are trapped under an illegal siege as a continuation of decades of oppression and apartheid.”, AA writes.
