ATHENS — Swedish activist Greta Thunberg will be among more than 70 people of different nationalities to leave Israel on Monday after they were seized aboard an intercepted Gaza aid flotilla.
Most, if not all, those being released from Israeli detention will be flown to Greece, where they will be able to get flights to their home countries, their respective governments said on Sunday.
Those flying out of Israel on Monday include 28 French citizens, 27 Greeks, 15 Italians, and nine Swedes.
Twenty-one Spaniards separately returned to Spain on Sunday from Israel.
The release still leaves several foreigners in Israeli custody, including 28 Spanish nationals.
All had been on board the 45-vessel Global Sumud Flotilla carrying activists and politicians, who had been aiming to get past an Isr