Swedish activist Greta Thunberg will be among more than 70 people of different nationalities to leave Israel on Monday after they were seized aboard an intercepted Gaza flotilla.

Most, if not all, those being released from Israeli detention will be flown to Greece, where they will be able to get flights to their home countries, their respective governments said on Sunday.

Those flying out of Israel on Monday include 28 French citizens, 27 Greeks, 15 Italians, and nine Swedes.

Twenty-one Spaniards separately returned to Spain on Sunday from Israel.

The release still leaves several foreigners in Israeli custody, including 28 Spanish nationals.

All had been on board the 42-vessel Global Sumud Flotilla carrying activists and politicians, who had been aiming to break an Israeli blockade on Gaza designed to prevent Hamas from importing weapons. The flotilla activists said they were carrying a symbolic quantity of humanitarian aid for Gaza — where the United Nations says famine has taken hold; a charge that Israel rejects — and refused Israel’s invitation to dock their vessels at an Israeli port, from where the aid would be transferred over land to Gaza.

Israel started intercepting the ships in international waters on Wednesday, detaining the more than 470 people aboard the boats.

The Italian and Greek foreign ministries said their released nationals would on Monday fly from Israel to Athens. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on X that the 15 Italians would have assistance for a subsequent transfer to Italy.

France’s foreign ministry said the 28 French........

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