Israel’s Foreign Ministry has said Swedish activist Greta Thunberg boarded a flight to France on her way back to her home country.
It comes after the Gaza-bound ship she was on, the Madleen, was seized by the Israeli military on Monday.
The Foreign Ministry posted images on the platform X showing Thunberg boarding a flight in a post.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, the group that organized the journey, said the Madleen was seized early on Monday around 200 kilometers (125 miles) off of the coast of Gaza.
The group issued a statement saying that Israel did not have any “legal authority” to detain the activists on the ship, arguing that they “cannot be criminalized for delivering aid or challenging an illegal blockade.”
Israel has sought to portray the campaign as a social media stunt, with the Foreign Ministry describing it as a “selfie yacht” carrying “celebrities.”
Meanwhile, an independent United Nations commission investigating the Palestinian territories said Israeli attacks on schools and religious and cultural sites in Gaza amount to war crimes.
“Israel has obliterated Gaza’s education system and destroyed over half of all religious and cultural sites in the Gaza Strip,” said the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian territories.
The report accused Israel of “directing attacks against civilians” and engaging in “willful killing.”
“In killing civilians sheltering in schools and religious sites, Israeli security forces committed the crime against humanity of extermination,” it said.
Commission chair Navi Pillay said in a statement that the actions indicated Israel was carrying out a campaign to destroy “Palestinian life” in the beleaguered enclave.
“We are seeing more and more indications that Israel is carrying out a concerted campaign to obliterate Palestinian life in Gaza,” she said.
