Freedom Flotilla Boat Sailing Beneath Mohawk Flag Seized by Israel
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 8, 2025
The humanitarian boat to Gaza carrying a Cree Dene woman, who sails beneath the Mohawk Warrior flag and Anishinaabe flag on the Conscience boat, was seized by Israeli forces tonight.
Three young women from Newfoundland, Canada, and eight U.S. citizens, are among the 145 journalists and health care workers taking humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Cree Dene Mskwaasin Agnew, from Salt River First Nation, is one of six Canadians onboard the fleet of the Freedom Flotilla.
Cree Dene Mskwaasin Agnew, from Salt River First Nation, is one of six Canadians onboard the fleet of the Freedom Flotilla.
"In Turtle Island, we live under settler occupation," Agnew said. "Our people have lived through genocide before and that we know that none of us are free until we’re all free."
"I’m here as an act of global Indigenous solidarity. And there are many, many people, many Indigenous nations across Turtle Island, that support the Palestinian people and their liberation struggle," she told Real News Network. She said she is a health care worker, and her boat just met up with eight other vessels, the Thousand Madleens.
"We remain undeterred by Israel's barbarism." She said they know they cannot depend on their government to do the right thing, and they are within their rights to deliver humanitarian aid.
Agnew said as a health care worker she has a responsibility to do this, that every hospital in Gaza has been targeted, decimated, burned to the ground. At home on Turtle Island, First Nations people do not get adequate health care, and this is no different, she said.
"We have a duty to be here."
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| Canadians aboard Freedom Flotilla |
U.S. Citizens Aboard
"We are eight citizens of the United States aboard the Conscience vessel. If you are seeing this video it means that we have been attacked at sea and abducted by the Israeli occupation forces," the volunteers said before tonight's attack by Israel.
The crew called on their family and friends to put pressure on the United States government to secure their release, and everyone on the vessel, and most importantly to "end its complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people."
The boat alert announced the attack at around midnight New York time.
"Currently there are at least 8 military boats surrounding our flotilla with what looks like at least two of the boats being intercepted by the Israeli military."
Novara Media reports that the boats were intercepted over the course of about one hour last night.
The boats carried 145 participants, including 6 politicians, medical professionals and journalists. The ships set sail from Catania in Sicily, Italy, carrying $110,000 USD in medicines, respiratory equipment, and nutritional supplies.
The seizure of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Thousand Madleens to Gaza comes at the same time that the previous flotilla members described abuse and torture in the Ktzi'ot prison in the Negev desert.
Crews intercepted by Israeli forces tonight.
The Global Sumud Flotilla said that early morning Gaza time, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Thousand Madleens to Gaza ships were illegally intercepted by Israeli occupation forces. Participants—humanitarians, doctors, and journalists from across the world—have been taken against their will and are being held in unknown conditions.
"One thing we learned from the abuses and imprisonment Global Sumud Flotilla participants have experienced this past week is how vital early embassy intervention is. Governments must act now—silence enables abuse," the flotilla said.
"Call your embassies and governments to demand condemnation for this breach of internationals, the release of all participants, and an end to Israel’s illegal siege and genocide of the Palestinian people."
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