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Participants from the Global Sumud Flotilla, now in Istanbul, have begun providing harrowing testimony about widespread abuse, assault and torture: rubber bullets fired at close range, tasers to the face and upper body, stun grenades thrown into groups of detainees, stress positions held for hours under permanent bright light, hijabs (Muslim religious headcovers) forcibly removed, as well as various forms of sexual violence including: humiliating strip searches, sexual taunting, groping and pulling of genitals, and multiple accounts of rape.

Some of the most horrifying accounts centre on a single vessel that participants call the “torture boat.” This specific israeli naval vessel with a makeshift prison constructed of barbed wire and metal shipping containers became the primary site of intense violence following the interception; this reflects a small fraction of the patterns of systemic violence and sexual abuse against the Palestinian people at the hands of the israeli regime for decades.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

We require the headline match the article without editorializing.

"Israeli Torture Boat" is bad enough and carries with it the idea that it is government sanctioned (again!)

Make it match or we'll have to remove it.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)


is the headline in the article. that is a screenshot from it. what is your complaint?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

OP changed "Israeli" to "Zionist". Editorializing.

Oh I thought it was the other way around and the site had changed the headline. You know how they do

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 2 points 6 hours ago

Gaza Flotilla Volunteers Recount Getting the Standard Experience Foreigners Encounter On Israeli “Welcome Yacht”