Overview

• Noa Avishag Schnall, a Los Angeles–born photojournalist with Drop Site News, released a video alleging beatings and rape threats while in Israeli custody.
• She appeared with a black eye and bruises and said guards hung her from shackles and sat on her neck and face, blocking her airways.
• Her account describes repeated strip searches, zip-ties and stress positions, blindfolding, separation by sex, and the looting of detainees’ valuables.
• She said men were threatened with dogs and guns, women faced pepper-spray threats, and cells were woken with threats of rape after the pre-dawn seizure of the Conscience in international waters.
• Activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla have reported similar treatment, while Israeli authorities had not issued a formal response to these new claims as of publication.