Thunberg was one of 12 passengers on board the Madleen, a boat carrying aid destined for people in war-torn Gaza.

Greta Thunberg was deported from Israel on Tuesday, the country's foreign ministry said, the day after she and other activists were detained while trying to deliver a symbolic shipment of aid to Gaza by sea.

Israel's foreign ministry has branded it a "selfie yacht", while Thunberg says she has been "kidnapped" after Israeli forces boarded the vessel.

Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg was deported from Israel on Tuesday, the day after the Israeli navy prevented her and a group of fellow pro-Palestinian activists from sailing to Gaza.

The activists had set out to protest Israel’s ongoing military campaign in the Gaza Strip, which is among the deadliest and most destructive since World War II, and its restrictions on the entry of aid.

The detained crew of the Gaza-bound aid ship that was intercepted by Israel on Monday morning was taken to the Israeli port of Ashdod Monday evening, according to Israel’s foreign ministry.

Greta Thunberg has been deported from Israel after the humanitarian aid ship she was aboard was intercepted by the Israeli military and towed to the port city of Ashdod.The Swedish climate activist was among a 12-person crew on board the Madleen,

Israeli naval forces, far from the country’s shores, intercepted and seized a Gaza-bound ship carrying international activists, including Greta Thunberg, in an early morning raid

The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions on two hardline Israeli government ministers over comments they made about Gaza, Britain’s PA Media reported Tuesday.

The Israeli army said on Sunday it had retrieved the body of Hamas' military chief Mohammed Sinwar in an underground tunnel beneath a hospital in southern Gaza, following a targeted operation last month.