In this episode, we speak with Esmé, an activist and chef with the Global Sumud Flotilla.

She tells us about the activist group's humanitarian mission to Gaza, and what she saw during the Israeli navy's raid on the flotilla in international waters off Greece.

She also speaks on the kidnapping of her fellow activists and the beatings they were subjected on an Israeli ship.

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For more on the Global Sumud Flotilla, see: globalsumudflotilla.org

You can track the progress of the GSF ships here: globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker

Follow GSF on social media:

Instagram: globalsumudflotilla

on Twitter: @gbsumudflotilla

Read about GSF on The Civil Fleet: https://thecivilfleet.wordpress.com/tag/Global-Sumud-Flotilla/

Check out episode 81 of The Civil Fleet Podcast with journalist Lorenzo D'Agostino to hear how last year's GSF mission ended when the crew were kidnapped by the IDF, taken to an Israeli prison and tortured.

For more The Civil Fleet Podcast episodes on Greece, see episodes 68, 60, 56, 53, 52, 50, 35, 34, 28, 26, 18, 9 and 4

For more on the Open Arms rescue ship, check out episodes 30 and 13