A civilian boat in international waters was intercepted. Unarmed volunteers were seized. Personal belongings were taken. Communications were cut. This is not a scene from a thriller; it is the lived account of Gaza flotilla participants describing their abduction at sea by Israeli forces. Two activists remain detained.
The flotilla’s civilians were doing humanitarian work, planning to deliver food to starving Palestinians.
Intercepting a humanitarian mission beyond territorial waters and detaining its passengers without a transparent legal process offends basic maritime norms and human dignity.
If such actions pass without scrutiny, we erode the rules that protect civilians everywhere. Today it is a flotilla. Tomorrow it could be any aid mission, any journalist, any witness.
The continued detention of the two activists must end immediately. This act could only happen because our government maintains its economic and political support, costing taxpayers billions of dollars dating back to 1948.
Silence now is consent to terrorism.
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