All 23 Malaysian GSF Volunteers Detained, Says PM

Welsh woman among hundreds of people detained as convoy of boats stopped

Hannah Schafer, who is from Cardigan in Ceredigion, is one of an estimated 500 people on the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF)

Another Ship of Fools – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

Back in the 1980s, maestro P. J. O’Rourke wrote a riotous piece in Harper’s called Ship of Fools. Our favorite satirist signed up for a Peace Cruise on the Volga River. He traveled aboard the Alexander Pushkin with a boatload of Nation subscribers. It must have been about as exciting as a lobotomy. He described the landscape as “a stunted, overgrown field, unplanted, without grass, without anything. I was surrounded by equally barren heads.” The…

Wisma Putra: 23 Malaysians detained in Gaza-bound flotilla safe, to be deported

PUTRAJAYA: The Foreign Ministry has received information that all 23 Malaysians detained by Israel during their participation in the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) on Thursday (Oct 2) are safe and in good health and will be deported to third countries. Read full story

All 23 Malaysian GSF volunteers detained, says PM

KUALA LUMPUR: All 23 Malaysian volunteers with the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) have been arrested, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has confirmed.