Main news: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/04/greta-thunberg-israel-gaza-sweden

It was also reported in The Guardian earlier today:

“The embassy has been able to meet with Greta,” reads the email. “She informed of dehydration. 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.”

“Another detainee reportedly told another embassy that they had seen her [Thunberg] being forced to hold flags while pictures were taken. She wondered whether images of her had been distributed,” the Swedish ministry’s official added.

The allegation was corroborated by at least two other members of the flotilla who had been detained by Israeli forces and released on Saturday.

“They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” said Turkish activist Ersin Çelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, to Anadolu news agency.

Lorenzo D’Agostino, a journalist and another flotilla participant, said after returning to Istanbul that Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy” – a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251004-we-were-treated-like-animals-deported-gaza-flotilla-activists-say

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-says-citizens-gaza-aid-flotilla-return-special-flight-saturday-2025-10-04/

My addition:

If this is how a well-known foreign activist, a young woman from Europe, under international attention, was treated in just a short period of detention… imagine what’s been happening to Palestinians every single day for decades.

Imagine the mothers in Gaza who haven’t seen clean water in months. The children who sleep to the sound of drones. The elderly who carry the trauma of displacement generation after generation.

If this is the cruelty the world gets to see, what about what we don’t see, the torture, starvation, humiliation, and grief happening behind those walls?