Good to see the Time of Israel sticking to facts on this issue.
The Adalah legal aid organization representing detained activists from the Gaza flotilla said Sunday that prominent activist Greta Thunberg has not met with a lawyer since initially being processed by immigration officials after they were detained by naval forces.
The organization also slammed far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, accusing him of endorsing “inhumane treatment, abuse, and intimidation” of the activists while being held in an Israeli prison.
Ben Gvir said during the course of the day that he was “proud” of the way the Israel Prison Service (IPS) was treating the activists, and that he himself had instructed that they be subject to the same, severe conditions as received by Palestinian security prisoners.
His comments came in response to complaints about allegedly harsh conditions in which the flotilla participants are being kept, including for climate and pro-Palestinian activist Thunberg, who is reportedly being kept in a cell with bed bugs and denied adequate food and water.
Thunberg met with a lawyer immediately after being brought ashore last Thursday in order to be legally processed by the Immigration and Population Authority (PIBA). She has not met with a lawyer since then.
It is assumed that Thunberg is in Ketziot Prison, with all other detainees from what was dubbed the Global Sumud Flotilla, although the IPS, the Foreign Ministry and PIBA did not respond to a request by The Times of Israel to confirm that she is being held in that facility.
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