Greta Thunberg and nearly two hundred pro-Palestinian activists are already on their way to Greece.

BarcelonaThe Israeli government announced this Monday that it has deported another 171 activists from the Global Summit Flotilla, including Swedish youth Greta Thunberg, on planes to Greece and Slovakia. It has denied that they have suffered any abuse in custody, as some of those imprisoned have alleged. The Israeli Foreign Ministry has stated that this group of "provocateurs" includes citizens of Greece, Italy, France, Ireland, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Austria, Luxembourg, Finland, Denmark, Slovakia, Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom.

In the coming hours, the 28 Flotilla activists with Spanish passports who remain detained in Israel will do so. These activists include Pilar Castillejo and Adrià Plazas, members of the Cuban Revolutionary Union (CUP), and representatives of Podemos, who could spend the night in Spain. This was confirmed in separate interviews by Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares and Foreign Affairs Minister Jaume Duch. "The forecast is that no Spaniards will remain in prison today," Albares told Catalunya Ràdio. "Everyone is working so that they can sleep at home today. That is the goal and I hope we can achieve it," Duch added in statements to RTVE.

This Sunday, the Flotilla activists who had signed a voluntary extradition document, which forced them to acknowledge that their entry into Israel had been "illegal," arrived in Spain. This first group included former Barcelona mayor Ada Colau and Republican councilor Jordi Coronas, who They have reported "psychological torture", harassment and deprivation of food and water. by Israel during their detention in the Israeli state. This mistreatment has also been witnessed by the rest of the released international activists and, as explained by Commons MEP Jaume Asens on SER, will be referred to the Spanish prosecutor's office, which is already investigating Israel for the crimes committed in Gaza.

Susanna Moreno, spokesperson for the CUP (United Left) party, confirmed this Monday that the two leaders of the anti-capitalist party will return to Catalonia in the coming hours. "Our comrades, like the rest of the people imprisoned by the Zionist state of Israel, will be released," the CUP leader explained. This group will be transferred from Tel Aviv to Athens and from there will travel to Madrid. "They will arrive in Barcelona tomorrow, surely," Moreno reported. In this regard, the spokesperson lamented "the lack of information" from Israel and denounced its continued "violation of rights" by maintaining the isolation of the detainees. "We won't rest easy until they're on the plane," he added.

Aside from Castillejos and Plazas, among the 28 activists with Spanish nationality still imprisoned in Israel are the three Podemos representatives aboard the Flotilla: Lucía Muñoz, Serigne Mbayé, and Alejandra Martínez. Both Plazas and Martínez, along with the Catalan teacher and activist Ariadna Masmitjà, as well as Simón Vidal from Valencia, began a hunger strike to denounce their situation, along with six other activists. Of the 478 activists detained as part of the Flotilla, Israel claims it has already deported around 200 in recent days.

In any case, Moreno emphasized that the Flotilla's mission was "the spark" that brought hundreds of thousands of people to the streets in Barcelona this Saturday and reiterated that "civil society has done what states should do." The CUP leader also did not spare criticism of the PSC for "supporting Gaza while repressing the protests" and announced that they will ask for explanations from the Parliament plenary session this week.

After sleeping at home for the first time in over a month, Colau also expressed sharp criticism of the PSC. In an interview on Catalunya Ràdio, she took the opportunity to ask the government to do "more" to sever all relations with Israel, including economic ones. "The PSC has been very lukewarm," the former mayor reproached, recalling that Mayor Jaume Collboni reestablished the twinning relationship with Tel Aviv, which she severed when she came to power—then left it hanging again. So far, and as a result of a pact with Comuns, Salvador Illa's government has closed Acción's office in Tel Aviv in protest of the massacre in Gaza.

The government will urge an "investigation" into the mistreatment.

Foreign Minister Jaume Duch has stated that the "mistreatment" reported by the Global Sumud Flotilla activists detained in Israel will have to be "investigated." These abuses "will have to be investigated," Duch stated, emphasizing that the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has indicated that "there is already an investigation by the Prosecutor's Office" and, in fact, on Sunday "there was a forensic team at the airport" for those repatriated.

Along the same lines, Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska assured this Monday that the Spanish government will respond to the complaints of the flotilla activists, but expressed caution regarding the legal measures that could be taken while waiting for the return of the remaining activists today. In statements to TVE, Marlaska recalled that the government and the Attorney General's Office are "proactive" in appearing before the International Criminal Court, but that no legal qualifications can be made regarding what happened with the Flotilla. Marlaska considered that in this possible Spanish judicial investigation, it would be "very helpful" if these activists filed a complaint about the alleged mistreatment and harassment they suffered in Israel.