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| Nelson Mandela's grandson Mandla was released today and is now returning home. |
South African and U.S. Flotilla Members Released Today after Abuse in Israeli Prison
By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, Oct. 7, 2025
Nelson Mandela's grandson Mandla Mandela announced today that members of the Sumud Global Flotilla are coming home. The brutal abuse reported by Australians last night was the latest report that those imprisoned were beaten, shot with water cannons, and their medicines thrown away, placing them in danger of stroke.
U.S. citizens were abandoned by the U.S. government and remained imprisoned in the brutal Israeli torture prison in the Negev desert for five days. They were rescued today by Jordan who bussed them out.
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| U.S. citizens abandoned by the U.S.government were rescued by Jordan and bussed out of the brutal Israeli prison where they were abused and beaten. |
U.S. citizens described being beaten and abused in prison, upon arrival in Jordan today.
Tommy Marcus said the flotilla was violently and illegally raided by Israeli Naval forces, while carrying aid to the starving people of Gaza. Their boats and belongings were all stolen.
"We were zip-tied, brutalized and blindfolded enroute to an Israeli internment camp in the Negev desert."
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| U.S. citizens speak today from the airport in Jordan on abuse in Israeli prison. |
Army veteran Zoe Dubno described the abuse during five days of illegal detention.
"We were beaten, abused, and denied access to critical medication from day to day," Zoe said, adding that they were denied food, water and legal representation.
"The U.S. government simply abandoned us to rot in the camp."
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| David Adler, shown on right, was among the U.S. citizens bussed out of Israel by way of the Allenby Bridge, thanks to arrangements made by the country to Jordan. Adler and the U.S. delegation later spoke today from the airport in Jordan. |
Journalist and editor David Adler thanked those who worked for their release, with calls, marches and mobilization.
"We are only here and only free because of you."
"We were kidnapped, zip-tied and stripped," David said, describing the abuse when they were kidnapped and their boats and clothes stolen. They were handcuffed and placed in solitary confinement when they asked for diabetes and other medications.
Israeli soldiers came into their cells in riot gear with tear gas and attack dogs to terrorize them in their cells. When they asked the prison guards to talk to their lawyers, they were told that they were not prisoners. They were told that they are terrorists, and terrorists don't get attorneys.
Today, the U.S. consulate told them, "We are not your baby sitters." They were taken to the airport with no food, water or their visas.
David said they were awakened today at 4 a.m. in their prison cells, put in shackles, and not told where they were going. They had no support from the U.S. government to find their way home.
Tommy said this cruelty has only made them more determined.
"We're coming home to keep fighting, alongside you, until all of Palestine is free."
Tommy said this cruelty has only made them more determined.
"We're coming home to keep fighting until all of Palestine is free."
Leila Hegazy said Palestinians continue to be held in indefinite detention and suffer this abuse of suffering and starvation in prison.
Journalist Alex Colton and Michael Fix were among the U.S. citizens released.
The flotilla said now that six of the participants -- from Morocco, Norway and Spain -- remain imprisoned after being illegally abducted in international waters. "Their detention is not just unlawful, it is a punishment for solidarity itself."
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| The activist Reyes Rigo is the only citizen of Spain who remains kidnapped in a prison by Israel, her friends said today. "She has been dragged by the hair, isolated, humiliated, and mistreated. All our support for her and all social pressure for the government to act." |
"We are reporting that all of our comrades from the Sumud Global Flotilla are safe and are coming home," he said, adding a message to his wife to tell his children he is coming home. "She must tell my kids that daddy is coming home."
Australians were alerted in a report last night of the brutal abuse in the prison.
Australians remained imprisoned last night after brutal abuse was reported. Surya McEwen said he had been slapped and had his arm dislocated and head slammed into the ground.
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| Juliet Lamont shown here after being released today. She said she was in serious danger of having a stroke after her medicines were taken by Israeli forces. |
Juliet Lamont, said she was at risk of stroke after her daily medication was confiscated by Israeli security forces. A report said one Australian was blasted with a water cannon and left in wet clothes for seven hours.
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| Rima Hassan arrived in Greece yesterday. |
Rima Hassan, European Parliament Member from France, released yesterday said she was beaten by two Israeli policemen.
Malaysian and Turkish imprisoned reported abuse. Women were caged in dog cages and forced to drink toilet water, men were woken in the night by snipers with attack dogs threatening to kill them. On the prison walls, women had written the names of their children in blood.
Greta Thunberg was dragged by her hair, forced to crawl, and forced to kiss the Israeli flag.
Released Scottish abductee Margaret Pacetta is hospitalized with a broken leg, multiple infections and severe dehydration.
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| Mexico's delegation received warm welcome and support on arrival in Jordan today. |
Six Mexican nationals were released today: Sol González Eguía, Ernesto Ledesma Arronte, Arlín Medrano Guzmán, Carlos Pérez Osorio, Diego Vázquez Galindo, and Laura Alejandra Veléz Ruiz Gaitán. They were transferred to Amman, Jordan, where they were received by the Ambassador of Mexico in that country, along with the Ambassador of Mexico in Israel, who will accompany them to Mexico City.
Friends awaited news of another from Spain.
"Reyes Rigo is the only Spanish citizen who has not returned home. She was forcibly removed with extreme violence from the room, dragged by the hair, taken to solitary confinement, and we know nothing about her. We demand from the Government her return".
The four Basque members of the flotilla to Gaza are already in Euskal Herria. They arrived at Loiu airport past 23:15 on Monday.
Laura Adler, the sister of David Adler, a Jewish-American member of the flotilla and co-general coordinator of the Progressive International, told MEE the response of the US government had made her realise that “not everyone is deemed to be equally American."
Jordan arranged the release of U.S. and global citizens
Israel has deported 131 activists from the intercepted Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla to Jordan via the Allenby Bridge crossing between the kingdom and the West Bank, Jordanian state media reported Tuesday.
The deportation brings the number of activists still detained in Israel to no more than seven, after at least 472 have been deported.
The activists deported to Jordan included one Jordanian citizen and activists from Bahrain, Tunisia, Algeria, Oman, Kuwait, Libya, Pakistan, Turkey, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, Japan, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Serbia, Mexico, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, the UK and the US, said Jordanian foreign ministry spokesman Fuad Al-Majali, according to the AlMamlaka news outlet.
Jordanian authorities organized the transportation to the kingdom in coordination with their home nations.
California Rep. Ro Khanna said David Adler of California was released.
"I heard from David's family that he is in Jordan and released. So are all Americans who were on the flotilla. They will be sleeping through the night, and their flights home are arranged for the morning. Thank you to the thousands of activists and journalists across our nation for your advocacy."
Read more:
Greta's powerful speech on release in Greece, and details of abuse by flotilla members at Censored News.
U.S. Citizens, including veterans, imprisoned in Israel's violent prison
US nationals aboard the Sumud Flotilla vessels
Phil Tottenham – Ohio – Veteran
Zue Jernstedt – New York – Veteran
Greg Stoker – Texas – Veteran
Zuleyka Morales Rivera – West Virginia
Jessica Kaye Clotfelter – Illinois
Logan Hollarsmith – Arizona
Windfield Beaver – California
Najeh Abduljalil – Nevada
Michael Fix – New York
Tom Marcus – New York
Hannah Smith – Colorado
Geraldine Ramirez – Arizona
Stephen Wahab – Oregon
Leila Hegazy – New York
Idris Hausler – U.S. citizen (resides in Netherlands)
Frank Romano – New York
Carsie Blanton-Paola – New Jersey
Eric Lein-Jeannot III – New York
Adnaan Stumo-Mikeno – Massachusetts
Tor Stumo-Huga – Massachusetts
Paul Reid-Hio – Oregon
Jasmine Ikeda-Meteque – Washington
David Adler -- California
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