Israeli defence minister Israel Katz has told the Israeli military to stop a charity boat carrying activists including Sweden’s Greta Thunberg who are planning to defy an Israeli blockade and reach Gaza. Operated by the pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), the British-flagged Madleen yacht set sail from Sicily on June 6th and on Sunday evening was off the Egyptian coast, heading slowly towards the Gaza Strip, which is besieged by Israel. “I instructed the IDF to act so that the Madleen ... does not reach Gaza,” Mr Katz said in a statement. “To the anti-Semitic Greta and her Hamas-propaganda-spouting friends,...