Surya McEwen

Finally, the humanity of people who are experiencing this genocide and who have experienced apartheid for so many decades is starting to break through in the popular consciousness.

And so we've been able to kind of build more attention for the missions in this recent time in a different way.

But the violence and the tactics of the IOF in this particular mission was definitely like a dramatic escalation from last time.

Yeah, absolutely.

It's wild.

I mean, part of it is just that thing you were mentioning earlier, that the media landscape has changed and there's less attention on Gaza.

And so they feel like they can escalate their violence and there might not be consequences for that.

We'll see whether that's true.

It feels like the way that they've operated is creating some pushback internationally that is quite meaningful.

So I think it was a misstep on their part, but that was definitely their strategy.

I mean, there's going to be lots of legal challenges in different jurisdictions around the torture and abuse of participants.

I can't go into the details of that too much because it's being built up by the lawyers.

the amount of diplomatic pushback and the space.

I mean, it's always this thing of

Trying to create a situation where governments that don't want to act are forced to act and then other governments that potentially do want to act but can't deal with the consequences alone have this collective sense of being able to lean more into challenging Israel.

And we've opened up that space through the mission and how it's unfolded in a certain way.

But it's really hard to tell how that's going to evolve.

um we they had taken a bunch of of us into isolation like from that from from the the prison yard that we were all held in and so our we were we were myself and a few others were fighting very hard to have the people return to us who had been taken who were being tortured and we didn't know

um what was happening with them and so sorry people on your ship had been taken separately but you're on the prison ship yeah there's like a there's like a prison where everyone is held in the yard and the containers and then some people have been taken into other rooms like in isolation oh for hours at a time for hours and for some of them like safe was taken for for over a day and then tiago was taken towards the end and some others had been taken um

The morning before that, so different amounts of time.