Neve O'Connor

How did the Israeli forces behave towards you when you were first intercepted?

So during our first interception, we, as I was on a motorboat with the tactical ship, were surrounded comprehensively with Zodiacs, which is a speedboat.

We didn't follow their first instruction of moving down to the bow and they threatened to shoot us.

I think I turned to my friend in shock and she had two green lasers here and some on her chest.

So even though, for all accounts, it was somewhat of a light interception, there was violence throughout.

Some of my crewmates were thrown around behind me.

And then when we were processed onto their prison boat, they were, because the cameras were there, a lot kinder to me as I was the first boat being processed.

The further boats that came through and the more people that came through were treated with a lot more escalated violence.