Israel's defence minister vows to stop Greta Thunberg aid boat from reaching Gaza

Israel's defence curate has threatened to "take immoderate measures necessary" to halt an assistance vessel carrying Greta Thunberg from reaching Gaza.

The clime campaigner, 22, is 1 of a twelve activists aboard the Madleen, which acceptable sail from Sicily past Sunday connected a ngo aiming to interruption Israel's oversea blockade.

The activists person said they program to scope Gaza's territorial waters arsenic aboriginal arsenic Sunday to present humanitarian aid.

But successful a station connected X, Israel's defence curate Israel Katz said helium has instructed the IDF to forestall the vas reaching enactment and to "take immoderate measures necessary".

Addressing Thunberg and the different activists, helium said: "You should crook backmost - due to the fact that you volition not scope Gaza."

He wrote: "I person instructed the IDF to enactment truthful that the "Madeleine" hatred flotilla does not scope the shores of Gaza - and to instrumentality immoderate means indispensable to that end.

"To the anti-Semitic Greta and her chap Hamas propaganda spokespeople, I accidental clearly: You should crook backmost - due to the fact that you volition not scope Gaza.

"Israel volition enactment against immoderate effort to interruption the blockade oregon assistance violent organizations - astatine sea, successful the aerial and connected land."

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