Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and 170 other crew members from the flotilla that tried to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza were deported to Greece and Slovakia by Israel, after spending five days detained.

They are not the first to leave the country. On Friday, Israel deported four Italian legislators, 137 people to Turkey on Saturday, and another 29 to Spain on Sunday.

Many of them have reported mistreatment while in captivity in Israel.

Thunberg herself told Swedish officials that she had been confined in a bedbug-infested cell, received little food or water, and was forced to “hold flags,” The Guardian has learned.

Adalah, an Israeli-Arab legal aid organization, said many activists have reported mistreatment, some saying they were denied food and water and others that they were harassed by Israeli security forces.

In a post on intercepted by Israel last week.

The boats were boarded and the activists detained in international waters, about 130 kilometers from the coast of Gaza.

This is the second time Thunberg has been deported by Israel after unsuccessfully trying to reach Gaza by sea.

Israel says the 171 people have been deported to Greece and Slovakia and are citizens of Greece, Italy, France, Ireland, Sweden, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Austria, Luxembourg, Finland, Denmark, Slovakia, Switzerland, Norway, the United Kingdom, Serbia, and the United States.

Negotiations between Israel and Hamas

The deportation comes on the same day that Hamas and Israeli emissaries are holding indirect talks in Egypt to finalize details of US President Donald Trump's proposed peace plan for Gaza.

The 20-point plan is really just a framework of a few pages,with numerous sticking points for both sides still to be resolved, as BBC correspondent Tom Bennet explains from Jerusalem.

One of these is how the 48 hostages, of whom only 20 are believed to be alive, will be freed. Hamas has agreed to the hostage exchange provided certain “conditions on the ground” are met. As Hamas's only bargaining chip, it is unclear whether it will be willing to release them before other elements of the agreement are finalized.

Hamas has also made no mention of possible disarmament, something that Israel considers essential and that Trump has also demanded.

The plan also calls for Gaza to be governed by a temporary transitional body of Palestinian technocrats that would include international leaders, and that it would then be handed over to the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), something that Netanyahu has rejected.

Nor is it shed any light on the plan or timeline for an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, something that Hamas will likely want to clarify.

This weekend, President Trump urged the parties to reach an agreement as soon as possible.

On his Truth Social networking site, the president assured that “time is of the essence or there will be massive bloodshed, something no one wants to see,” he wrote in capital letters.

Trump had previously stated that he believed Hamas is “ready for a lasting peace,” after the group presented its response to the US peace plan.

He also urged Israel to “immediately stop the bombardment of Gaza so that we can safely and quickly release the hostages.”

However, Israeli bombardment of the Strip has not ceased since the plan was announced. In the last 24 hours, 21 more Palestinians were killed by bombs, raising the death toll to 67,160, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.

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