Greta Thunberg Deported from Israel

Activist Greta Thunberg was relentlessly mocked as she was deported from Israel on Tuesday — after the Gaza-bound “selfie yacht” she and her posse of activists were on was seized by the Israeli military.

A photo released by Israel’s Foreign Ministry shows a straight-faced Thunberg buckled into a plane seat on a flight back to Sweden, her home country.

The 22-year-old’s critics were quick to poke fun at the climate activist for traveling by ship all the way to Israel just to be sent home on a gas-guzzling jet, which she has spoken out against for years.

“She looks happy for polluting the climate,” one X user mocked in response to the Foreign Ministry’s post.

“Polluting the climate all the way back home,” another quipped.

Adalah, a legal rights group in Israel representing Thunberg and the other activists, said Thunberg, two other activists and a journalist had agreed to be deported and leave Israel.

Other activists who refused deportation were being held in detention and their case was set to be heard by Israeli authorities.

Thunberg had claimed that she and her crew had been “kidnapped” by the Israel Defense Forces troops who captured and boarded the Madleen, operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, on Monday.

Thunberg and 11 others on board had tried to bust through Israel’s naval blockade of the war-torn Gaza Strip with aid for Palestinians.

“Looks like her kidnappers didn’t want her either,” another critic sneered in response to the photo released by Israel’s Foreign Ministry.

Meanwhile, scores more congratulated Israel’s handling of what could have been a dangerous escalation of the conflict, now in its second year.

“Well done Israel. Stopped the activists from entering a blockade, a conflict zone. Prevented the activists from being kidnapped by Islamic terrorists. Stopped WW3 & protected life,” one person wrote.

“If the Islamic terrorists who control the area had kidnapped these activists it could have triggered WW3. Therefore the activists put us all at risk. Unforgivable,” they added.

Israeli naval forces seized the boat early Monday about 125 miles off Gaza’s coast, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

The boat, accompanied by Israel’s navy, was escorted to the Israeli port of Ashdod on Monday evening, according to Israel’s Foreign Ministry.

The activists said they were protesting the ongoing war and the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Israel has maintained that such ships violate its naval blockade of Gaza.

Israel’s Foreign Ministry portrayed the voyage as a public relations stunt, saying on social media that “the ‘selfie yacht’ of the ‘celebrities’ is safely making its way to the shores of Israel.”