Journalist Noa Avishag Schnall accused Israeli guards of treating her and other prisoners with “extreme brutality” on Monday, including beatings and “threats of rape,” after being taken by Israeli forces from international waters while aboard the Conscience Freedom Flotilla.
In a video statement published to social media, Schnall – a Los Angeles-born photojournalist who had been reporting from the flotilla for Drop Site News – recalled the “extreme brutality” she allegedly experienced during her captivity.
“Any flotilla member who upset the Israeli guards was subjected to twisted and tightened handcuffs and some received beatings,” she said. “I was hung from the metal shackles on my wrists and ankles and beaten in the stomach, back, face, ear, and skull by a group of men and women guards, one of whom sat on my neck and face, blocking my airways.”
The journalist continued, “Many comrades, understandably, do not want their identity made public when recounting this treatment. During the evening, the men were tormented by guards with attack dogs and guns. The women were threatened with pepper spray. Our cell was awoken with threats of rape.”
As long as her children are in one piece, and her bloodline still exists, it’s an improvement. You have to rate God’s chosen people on a curve. Though now that she’s speaking up, she might get closer to that average like many others before her.
I don’t know if this was your intention, but you come across as being completely dismissive of someone who just went through really horrible and traumatic abduction.
It’s a spectrum. You can’t let perfect be the enemy of good. It’s just harm reduction. You gotta take your wins where you can.
Very oniony, I like it, but I feel it needs a bit more work.
Tough crowd. I work with what’s given to me. Joking about rape, torture, and genocide is no easy task.
What are you even trying to say?
It’s like one of those comments you type out half-asleep on the toilet some mornings before stopping yourself and asking, “Why the fuck am I even saying this?”, before deleting it and going back to lurking. Except he didn’t delete.