'I just wanted to help people - the Israeli army captured and tortured me'

'I just wanted to help people - the Israeli army captured and tortured me'

‘Stepping onto the boat, I was aware that interception was a possibility,’ says Hasnain Looking at my friend beside me, I could see the pain etched across his face. He had just been hit by one of the rubber bullets sprayed in our direction by Israeli forces.  It certainly wasn’t going to be the last moment of violence inflicted on us after we were taken from our boat, held hostage and tortured – but even then I knew that no matter what we were g…