Oliver Towfigh Nia<\/p>\n
23 May 2026\u2022Update: 23 May 2026<\/p>\n
Two German activists involved in Gaza aid flotilla accused Israel of mistreatment and torture upon their return to Germany on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Supporters welcomed activists Nesrin Zeaiter and Uwe Sander at Hannover Airport, Langenhagen, with chants of \u201cfree Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zeaiter told reporters upon her arrival in Hanover that activists on the flotilla had been tortured.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was blindfolded from the very first second,\u201d she said, while adding that her hands were tied.<\/p>\n
Sander described how his boat, carrying aid supplies for Gaza, was fired upon with rubber bullets by Israeli forces.<\/p>\n
Four soldiers boarded the vessel and \u201ckidnapped\u201d both the ship and the seven passengers. He, too, was subsequently kicked and beaten.<\/p>\n
According to the organization Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF), the two were part of the aid flotilla that was intercepted by the Israeli navy in international waters earlier this week.<\/p>\n
The organization Global Sumud Germany reported that activists from the aid flotilla were subjected to abuse, assaults, and torture by Israeli security forces following their arrests.<\/p>\n
Zeaiter is said to have been beaten, bitten by dogs, and stabbed with a knife. The German Foreign Ministry also confirmed on Friday that activists from Germany had been injured.<\/p>\n
Global Sumud Germany stated that some activists had already returned to Germany, and that others were expected to return in the coming days. The organization is calling for a full investigation into the events.<\/p>\n
Germany on Friday demanded “clarification” from Israel on the mistreatment of German activists of the Gaza aid flotilla, calling “the accusations absolutely serious.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oliver Towfigh Nia 23 May 2026\u2022Update: 23 May 2026 Two German activists involved in Gaza aid flotilla accused…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-456858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}