The Foreign Ministry announced, after Navy Seal Unit 13 took control of the Madleen flotilla to Gaza, that "the celebrity selfie yacht is safely making its way to Israeli shores. The activists will likely be returned to their countries." The ministry added that "while Greta (Thunberg) and others try to stage a media provocation aimed solely at public relations - in a vessel carrying less aid than a single truck - more than 1,200 aid trucks have entered the Strip from Israel in the past two weeks."

