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Brazil, Mexico say nationals from Gaza flotilla returning home
Brazil and Mexico say their citizens detained by Israel after being seized from the Global Sumud Flotilla on the way to Gaza are on their way home.
Thirteen Brazilians, including lawmaker Luizianne Lins of the ruling Workers’ Party, “were taken to the border with Jordan and released”, Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Mexico’s Foreign Ministry said six Mexicans were also brought to Jordan, where they were met by the ambassador.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused Israel of violating international law by intercepting the flotilla in international waters. Both he and his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, demanded the safe return of their nationals.
US activist from Gaza flotilla alleges ‘psychological torture’ by Israel
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/7/us-activist-from-gaza-flotilla-alleges-psychological-torture-by-israel
A US citizen detained by Israel on the Global Sumud Flotilla, which tried to deliver aid to Gaza, says he and other activists endured abuse and “psychological torture” in Israeli custody.
David Adler, who was released and deported to Jordan on Tuesday, said after Israeli forces intercepted the flotilla in international waters, they took the activists to a prison complex in the Negev desert in southern Israel.
“We were kidnapped, stripped, zip-tied, blindfolded and sent to an internment camp on a police van without any access to food, to water, to legal support,” he said. “And for the next five days, on and off, we were psychologically tortured.”
In an audio message shared with Al Jazeera through the advocacy group Progressive International, Adler said he and another Jewish activist were picked out and forced to be photographed with Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
“After interception, we were violently forced onto our knees into positions of submission, where the two Jews of the flotilla were taken by the ear and ripped from the group for a photo-op with Ben-Gvir, staring at the flag of the State of Israel, taunted by his goons,” Adler said.
He described his time in detention as a “five-day nightmare of serial and systematic violations of our most basic rights”.
Adler, who is co-general coordinator at Progressive International, added that riot troops would raid the prison with attack dogs at night to “terrify and terrorise” the detainees.
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As he was sailing towards Gaza last week, Adler shared a social media post reflecting on his Jewish identity and the decision to participate in the flotilla.
“If there’s any part of the Torah that I still remember, it is this obligation it bestows upon us: ‘Justice, justice you shall pursue.’ How could we stand by while the State of Israel perverts this holy obligation, overseeing a holocaust of the Palestinian people?” Adler wrote.
“I joined this flotilla just like any other delegate – to defend humanity before it is too late. But on Yom Kippur, I am reminded that I am also here because my Jewish heritage demands it.”
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In his message, Adler called the mistreatment of the activists a marker of “how rogue the state of Israel has become in its utter disregard for basic international humanitarian law”.
“I’m obviously very aware that all of this pales in comparison to the treatment that Palestinians endure every single day,” he said.
