Environmental activist Greta Thunberg has advised Swedish officers she is going through harsh situations in Israeli detention following her arrest throughout a flotilla mission to ship help to Gaza, in response to correspondence reviewed by The Guardian.

Thunberg, who was taken into custody after Israeli forces intercepted the vessel she was travelling on, reportedly described being held in a cell infested with bedbugs, receiving insufficient meals and water, and enduring lengthy hours seated on exhausting surfaces.

“The embassy has been capable of meet with Greta,” learn an e mail from Sweden’s international ministry to her shut associates. “She knowledgeable of dehydration. She has obtained inadequate quantities of each water and meals. She additionally acknowledged that she had developed rashes which she suspects had been brought on by bedbugs. She spoke of harsh therapy and mentioned she had been sitting for lengthy intervals on exhausting surfaces.”

The correspondence additionally detailed claims that one other detainee witnessed Thunberg being pressured to pose with flags whereas Israeli personnel took images. The id of the flags stays unclear. Thunberg reportedly questioned whether or not such photos had been circulated.

The 22-year-old local weather campaigner is amongst 437 activists, parliamentarians and legal professionals who joined the International Sumud Flotilla (GSF), a coalition of greater than 40 vessels looking for to problem Israel’s 16-year maritime blockade of Gaza by delivering humanitarian provides.

Between Thursday and Friday, Israeli forces intercepted all taking part boats and arrested everybody on board. Most detainees, together with Thunberg, are being held at Ketziot Jail, also called Ansar III, in Israel’s Negev desert. The ability is primarily used to accommodate Palestinian safety prisoners, lots of whom face allegations of involvement in militant exercise.