JERUSALEM

GRETA THUNBERG’S SO-called “selfie yacht”, Madleen, was a deep-cover Mossad agent, according to Israeli government officials.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition vessel was recruited by the much-vaunted Israeli intelligence service after it was compromised in a sting operation, the Israelis say.

“Mossad found the vessel at a moment of weakness – we can’t say what – and took advantage of it,” a Mossad officer explained. “That’s how intelligence works. The yacht was trained, briefed and then put to work spying for Israel. It kept the Israeli Defence Forces appraised of all happenings on board and even managed to download all the material on the mobile phones the activists threw overboard before they were intercepted.”

Sources in Tel Aviv say the boat will be given a new identity and probably sent to somewhere like Australia to live out its days.

“Hamas will show no mercy it they ever get hold of it,” a Mossad agent commented. “It will always have a suicide capacity, just in case.”