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By TOM KELLY, INVESTIGATIONS EDITOR<\/a> and ANDREW JEHRING, CHIEF FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT<\/a> <\/p>\n

Published: 19:42 EDT, 6 September 2025 | Updated: 23:52 EDT, 6 September 2025 <\/p>\n

Grinning as he gives a Churchillian ‘victory’ sign, the spokesman for Greta Thunberg<\/a>‘s Gaza<\/a> ‘freedom flotilla’ poses with a Hamas<\/a> chief weeks before setting sail.<\/p>\n

Wael Nawar was draped in a scarf emblazoned with the terror group’s emblem as he stood with other pro-Palestinian activists beside Youssef Hamdan, who runs Hamas’<\/a>s North African operation, during a meeting at its Algerian headquarters in June.<\/p>\n

Mr Nawar is listed alongside Swedish campaigner Ms Thunberg as part of the 13-strong ‘steering committee’ orchestrating the Global Sumud Flotilla<\/a>, which left Spain<\/a> last week to deliver food and medical aid to Gaza.<\/p>\n

Another committee member, political activist Marouan Ben Guettaia, was also a guest of Hamdan a few days after and later posted a picture of the pair sitting in front of a Hamas flag.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A third committee member, Brazilian Thiago Avila, attended Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral in\u00a0Beirut<\/a> in February and praised him as an ‘inspiration’.<\/p>\n

The photos, unearthed by The Mail on Sunday, raise questions about why the organisers of a mission which claims to promote the ‘sanctity of human life’ were willing guests of a terror group that in the October 7 attacks murdered almost 1,200 people and kidnapped more than 250.<\/p>\n

Pictures from Mr Nawar’s June 23 visit to the terror network’s North African office were posted on Facebook<\/a> with a caption: ‘Today, at the headquarters of the Hamas representation in Algeria, a delegation from the Sumud Convoy was received by the Hamas representative in Algeria, Youssef Hamdan\u2026’<\/p>\n

The post, by another Palestinian activist involved in the convoy, also hailed Hamas’s terror chief Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated by Israel last year, as a ‘martyr’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Grinning as he gives a Churchillian ‘victory’ sign, Wael Nawar, the spokesman for Greta Thunberg’s Gaza ‘freedom flotilla’ poses with Youssef Hamdan, who runs Hamas’ North African operation, during a meeting at its Algerian headquarters in June<\/p>\n

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Mr Nawar is listed alongside Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg as part of the 13-strong ‘steering committee’ orchestrating the Global Sumud Flotilla<\/p>\n

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The flotilla left Spain last week and is en route to deliver food and medical aid to Gaza<\/p>\n

Hamdan, who often appears on local media representing Hamas in Algeria, told Arabic state radio on the day after October 7 that the terror group had ‘decided to use the language the enemy understands \u2013 the language of fighting’.<\/p>\n

On the first anniversary of the attacks he attended a rally in Algiers supporting the atrocity, local media reported.<\/p>\n

All the flotilla steering committee members \u2013 who profess believe in ‘human dignity and the power of non-violent action’ \u2013 are thought to have joined Ms Thunberg on the fleet of 20 boats which departed from Barcelona this week.<\/p>\n

The news came as more than 300 Palestine Action supporters were arrested in London yesterday amid clashes between police and protesters.<\/p>\n

More than 1,500 demonstrators descended on Parliament Square deliberately carrying placards that would get them arrested for showing support to an outlawed group.<\/p>\n

The Metropolitan Police said its officers were ‘subjected to an exceptional level of abuse’ in Westminster, including ‘punches, kicks, spitting and objects being thrown at them’.<\/p>\n

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