Jerusalem: Israel has deported Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and about 170 other participants in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla intercepted at sea by the Israeli military.

Thunberg was among dozens of deportees to land in Athens, Greece, on Monday afternoon. Crowds of supporters gathered at Eleftherios Venizelos international airport and chanted “Free free Palestine!” as activists disembarked.

“That this mission has to exist, it’s a shame! It is a shame!” Thunberg said shortly after arriving.

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment, trust me, but that is not the story.”

Instead, Thunberg urged world leaders and citizens to end their “complicity” with the “genocide” being carried out against Palestinians in Gaza, on the eve of the sec

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