![novaramedia's tweet photo. Israeli forces raped and sexually assaulted numerous activists who were kidnapped in international waters while trying to deliver aid to Gaza, participants have said.
Speaking to reporters after being deported to Turkey on Thursday, flotilla participant Juliet Lamont said she was among 12 people sexually assaulted on a prison boat, which held some 180 of the 428 activists who were abducted this week.
“We were tortured,” she told the Anadolu Agency. “I was put down, cable-tied, they put so much water under me for an hour that I thought I was going to drown. I was sexually assaulted in this kind of torture chamber.”
She added: “We had people who were tasered in the face. People were syringed with unknown sedatives.”
“It was not one, not two, not three. [but] many cases of sexual violence against our participants,” added Thiago Avila, a flotilla organiser who was kidnapped and tortured in a separate round of interceptions by Israel on 1 May.
He spoke to reporters after arriving in Istanbul to greet the newly released participants.
“The scenario is horrific,” he said. “People were raped, people were tortured, people were assaulted in the worst ways possible. And the worst thing is to know that they do much worse with Palestinians.”
He added: “It’s very important that we show this to the world, that we show who they really are. They are rapists. They are baby killers, they are war criminals.”
Many of the released activists showed visible marks from being beaten and tortured.
On Wednesday Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, drew global condemnation after posting a video of the activists being brutalised in detention. The UK has summoned Israel’s top diplomat in Britain to express its “strong condemnation" of the conduct shown in the video.
A UN commission of inquiry found last year that Israel’s use of sexual violence was systemic, serving to “dominate, oppress and destroy the Palestinian people in whole or in part”.
Israel is holding over 9,000 Palestinians in what local rights group B'Tselem has described as a network of torture camps. There have been several reports of Israeli guards using dogs to rape Palestinians.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HI7OJvBWMAAAItV.jpg)
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“They signed a ceasefire with Hamas, not with children in tents that they continue to burn alive.”
Journalist @jeremyscahill, co-founder of @DropSiteNews, has highlighted how Israel uses bogus ceasefire agreements as cover while it continues to slaughter civilians on a near-daily basis.
It’s something Iran’s government is all too aware of as it deals with the US and Israel, he told Sky News.
In the early hours of Thursday morning local time, Israel bombed residential buildings in Gaza City, killing at least nine as an entire sleeping family of five was burned to death, Drop Site reported.
There have been numerous cases of Israel burning civilians to death. In December last year a family of three, including two children, burned to death in their tent in the al-Mawasi displacement camp in southern Gaza.
The Israelization of our societies is already happening: posturing democracies where human rights can be suspended for people that those in power consider a disturbance.
Wake up Brits. Italians. Germans. French. North Americans. Dutch.
The British-backed United Arab Emirates (UAE) is helping to supply foreign mercenaries to a group accused of mass rape, torture and ethnic slaughter in Sudan, a Human Rights Watch investigation has revealed.
An Abu Dhabi-based firm called the Global Security Services Group (GSSG) is training hundreds of Colombian fighters who have joined Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as they rampage through the country. GSSG has links to the UAE’s ruling family.
As well as being involved in direct attacks, the mercenaries have operated drones and trained RSF recruits, many of whom are “young children”, according to an unnamed Colombian mercenary quoted by the rights group.
The Colombian military contractors were transited through UAE military facilities before being deployed to Sudan, where the RSF is battling the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).
The unnamed mercenary who trained RSF child soldiers said they did so at camps around Nyala, the militia's main base in South Darfur.
The RSF began life as a militia known as the Janjaweed, used by the Sudanese government during the war in Darfur. The RSF been linked to ethnic cleansing, widespread sexual violence and mass disappearances.
The RSF was responsible for a massacre in the city of El Fasher in October 2025 following an 18-month starvation siege of an estimated 300,000 people.
The UN said the atrocities against non-Arab communities there, including the Zaghawa, Fur and Berti, showed all the “hallmarks of genocide”. Some of the Colombian mercenaries were present at the time of the genocide, according to videos verified and geolocated by Human Rights Watch.
The Guardian revealed in December 2025 that a UK-registered company appeared to be involved in recruiting Colombian mercenaries to fight alongside the RSF.
British-made military hardware – including small-arms target systems and British-made engines for armoured personnel carriers – has been discovered at RSF battle sites, according to two dossiers of material seen by the UN security council the month of the genocide.
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South Africa's reply is due November 22, 2027.
Israel's rejoinder is due May 22, 2029.
As noted many times before, this case will take years to reach a final judgment.
The people of Gaza cannot wait.
States must act now.
Israel forced the U.S. into war and won’t let us end it.
Imagine this.
In just hours, Israel has unleashed more than 110 airstrikes across over 20 towns &villages in south Lebanon & the Western Bekaa, alongside relentless artillery shelling.
Entire residential blocks flattened. Families buried alive. Children pulled bloodied from rubble. Rescue workers ordered to halt searches while survivors are reportedly still trapped underneath collapsed homes.
And all this unfolding on the eve of Eid al-Adha.
There is nothing “limited” or “defensive” about these strikes.
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Former ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda: “Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen asked me to halt investigations related to Palestine, and the pressure later escalated to indirect threats against my family.”
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Something shocking has happened.
It's not Israel raping and torturing flotilla activists, as they routinely torture Palestinians. It's that thanks to national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's shameless gloating, the rest of the world has been forced to pay attention.
@CharlottEngland reports in the latest Cortado: https://t.co/9MOQpnzAQg
Activists deported by Israel were beaten with batons by Spanish police officers upon arrival at Bilbao airport at the weekend.
Four members of the Global Sumud Flotilla were reportedly detained by the Basque regional police on allegations of civil disobedience.
Protests erupted in Bilbao on Sunday after footage of the activists being beaten was widely shared on social media.
Israel is still killing babies in Gaza and it’s barely even a news story.
May it be 'a lightning rod moment'.
In the past 2years+ the State of Israel has institutionalised the 'right to torture' Palestinians and by extension (it seems) those who defend them. BenGvir is the public face of an entire system that deserves to be investigated/prosecuted.
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Israeli forces raped and sexually assaulted numerous activists who were kidnapped in international waters while trying to deliver aid to Gaza, participants have said.
Speaking to reporters after being deported to Turkey on Thursday, flotilla participant Juliet Lamont said she was among 12 people sexually assaulted on a prison boat, which held some 180 of the 428 activists who were abducted this week.
“We were tortured,” she told the Anadolu Agency. “I was put down, cable-tied, they put so much water under me for an hour that I thought I was going to drown. I was sexually assaulted in this kind of torture chamber.”
She added: “We had people who were tasered in the face. People were syringed with unknown sedatives.”
“It was not one, not two, not three. [but] many cases of sexual violence against our participants,” added Thiago Avila, a flotilla organiser who was kidnapped and tortured in a separate round of interceptions by Israel on 1 May.
He spoke to reporters after arriving in Istanbul to greet the newly released participants.
“The scenario is horrific,” he said. “People were raped, people were tortured, people were assaulted in the worst ways possible. And the worst thing is to know that they do much worse with Palestinians.”
He added: “It’s very important that we show this to the world, that we show who they really are. They are rapists. They are baby killers, they are war criminals.”
Many of the released activists showed visible marks from being beaten and tortured.
On Wednesday Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, drew global condemnation after posting a video of the activists being brutalised in detention. The UK has summoned Israel’s top diplomat in Britain to express its “strong condemnation" of the conduct shown in the video.
A UN commission of inquiry found last year that Israel’s use of sexual violence was systemic, serving to “dominate, oppress and destroy the Palestinian people in whole or in part”.
Israel is holding over 9,000 Palestinians in what local rights group B'Tselem has described as a network of torture camps. There have been several reports of Israeli guards using dogs to rape Palestinians.
![novaramedia's tweet photo. Israeli forces raped and sexually assaulted numerous activists who were kidnapped in international waters while trying to deliver aid to Gaza, participants have said.
Speaking to reporters after being deported to Turkey on Thursday, flotilla participant Juliet Lamont said she was among 12 people sexually assaulted on a prison boat, which held some 180 of the 428 activists who were abducted this week.
“We were tortured,” she told the Anadolu Agency. “I was put down, cable-tied, they put so much water under me for an hour that I thought I was going to drown. I was sexually assaulted in this kind of torture chamber.”
She added: “We had people who were tasered in the face. People were syringed with unknown sedatives.”
“It was not one, not two, not three. [but] many cases of sexual violence against our participants,” added Thiago Avila, a flotilla organiser who was kidnapped and tortured in a separate round of interceptions by Israel on 1 May.
He spoke to reporters after arriving in Istanbul to greet the newly released participants.
“The scenario is horrific,” he said. “People were raped, people were tortured, people were assaulted in the worst ways possible. And the worst thing is to know that they do much worse with Palestinians.”
He added: “It’s very important that we show this to the world, that we show who they really are. They are rapists. They are baby killers, they are war criminals.”
Many of the released activists showed visible marks from being beaten and tortured.
On Wednesday Israel’s national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, drew global condemnation after posting a video of the activists being brutalised in detention. The UK has summoned Israel’s top diplomat in Britain to express its “strong condemnation" of the conduct shown in the video.
A UN commission of inquiry found last year that Israel’s use of sexual violence was systemic, serving to “dominate, oppress and destroy the Palestinian people in whole or in part”.
Israel is holding over 9,000 Palestinians in what local rights group B'Tselem has described as a network of torture camps. There have been several reports of Israeli guards using dogs to rape Palestinians.](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HI7OKI1W0AAKVEJ.jpg)
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78 years ago, 800,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes. Britain made it possible.
Today, Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Britain made it possible.
78 years of the Nakba - and 78 years of British complicity in crimes against the Palestinian people.
GPs and hospitals to be forced to share patient data as Palantir is granted “unlimited access” to identifiable information
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REVEALED: It took 18 months, and multiple FOI battles, but we can now reveal Ireland approved €20 million in military-capable dual-use exports to the IDF and Israeli Ministry of Defense during the height of its military assault on Gaza in 2024.
https://t.co/2AuwzQsKKX
Thiago Ávila is being held in isolation and is apparently unaware of her death.
https://t.co/GRirO2sf7W
Israeli soldiers beat and tortured flotilla organisers Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Ávila after abducting them in international waters near Greece.
https://t.co/CrVOWHvb8A
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