New Delhi, June 10 -- Israeli naval forces intercepted a Gaza-bound aid boat carrying climate activist Greta Thunberg and 11 other international activists on Monday (June 9), accusing them of attempting to breach Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. The boat, part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, was seized before reaching Palestinian waters and diverted to the Israeli port of Ashdod.

"I congratulate the IDF for the quick and safe takeover of the 'Madleen' flotilla," Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement on X (formerly Twitter).

Katz also ordered that the activists be shown footage of Hamas's October 7 attack, in which militants killed around 1,200 people in Israel and took 251 hostages.

"It is fitting that t...