Veterans for Peace on the Flotilla detainees, Israeli torture was worse than you have heard.

About this episode

Haitham Arafat shares his harrowing experience of being captured and tortured by Israel while participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Haitham Arafat, Palestinian American, cyber security consultant and engineer, born in Gaza and Global Sumud Flotilla activist joins us to share his experience in a boat crossing the Mediterranean and then captured, detained, and tortured by Israel. We have all seen bits and pieces of what the participants experienced in Israeli "concentration camps," however, Haitham shares his story of the collective torture perpetrated on the international humanitarians trying to bring aid to the people of Gaza. It was worse than we have heard and provides further evidence of the crimes being committed by the Israeli regime.

People in this episode

Host: jim wohlgemuth

Guest: Haitham Arafat

Topics covered

• Israeli torture
• Flotilla detainees
• Palestinian experience
• humanitarian aid
• Gaza
• international law

Keywords

• Israeli torture
• Flotilla
• Gaza
• humanitarian aid
• Haitham Arafat
• detention
• international law

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Global Sumud Flotilla, Israel

Places: Gaza, Mediterranean

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