Niamh O'Connor

The most harrowing experience for my entire mission...

was in that tent and it was when I was listening to the national anthem and the screams of people being beaten to the point of them like screaming for their life.

It has been.

Firstly, thank you so much for having me.

But yeah, it has been such an extreme end from one to the other.

But I'm very happy to be back in Australia and back with family.

Yes, set sail from Turkey.

And I'll have to admit the decision to sail again was not one that I took lightly.

We had so many conversations around whether or not this was a decision that was placing us in too much of an extreme danger.

But I think ultimately all of us decided who continued to sail that

we knew this would be a journey of immense personal risk.

And it was one that was still so important because the core objective of our mission hadn't been achieved.

We either hadn't delivered humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Everyone felt this drive and this need to keep going.

So that was why I sailed.

But yes, I think it took...

Two nights before we had our interception protocol put in action again because there were unknown vessels with their lights off just circling our boats all night long.

There was drone activity.

We were surrounded.

But it wasn't until I think 8 a.m.