“Designed to Break You”: Gaza Flotilla Activists Faced Violence, Sexual Abuse in Israeli Detention
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“Designed to Break You”: Gaza Flotilla Activists Faced Violence, Sexual Abuse in Israeli Detention
“I could hear screaming the whole time.” Our guests Alex Colston and Haitham Arafat spent days in Israeli custody after being abducted from a humanitarian mission sailing to Gaza. They share accounts of violence, abuse and torture at the hands of Israeli soldiers. “The process that they have there in the jail was designed to break you as a human,” says Arafat, a Palestinian American activist born in Gaza who has taken part in multiple missions at
Activists from the self-appointed aid fleet for the Gaza Strip have confirmed abuse charges against Israeli security forces. People reported on their return to their home countries of violent and sexual assaults, especially on board the ship on which they were accommodated after being arrested in the Mediterranean.
The broadcast of a video of activists of a "flotille for Gaza" kneeling and hands tied had aroused an international outcry. Sébastien Lecornu plans to seize the French justice system.
The Flotilla Fraud and the Collapsing Narrative of Israeli Abuse
Neve O’Connor’s flotilla abuse claims keep changing, with conflicting details, missing evidence, and allegations that don’t add up. Continue reading The Flotilla Fraud and the Collapsing Narrative of Israeli Abuse at Radical Truth Telling.
Rabat: Arab Jerusalem: Moroccan activists participating in the al-Samoud world fleet returned to Morocco to break the blockade of Gaza, amid massive popular and legal reception at Mohammed V International Airport, days after their arrest by the Israeli occupation authorities in international waters during their participation in a solidarity humanitarian mission aimed at delivering symbolic aid to the Gaza Strip [...]
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