Israeli forces have boarded several boats carrying foreign activists and aid bound for Gaza and taken them to an Israeli port, disrupting a protest that had become one of the most high-profile symbols of opposition to Israel's blockade of the enclave.

A video from the Israeli foreign ministry verified by Reuters shows the most prominent of the flotilla's passengers, Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, sitting on a deck surrounded by soldiers.

"Several vessels of the Hamas-Sumud flotilla have been safely stopped and their passengers are being transferred to an Israeli port," the Israeli foreign ministry said on X. "Greta and her friends are safe and healthy."

The Global Sumud Flotilla, transporting medicine and food to Gaza, consists of more than 40 civilian boats with about 500 p

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