All hero’s – Peter
Documentary filmmaker Juliet Lamont, one of seven Australian activists deported to Jordan from Israel overnight, has vowed to join another flotilla to Gaza “as soon as possible”.
“We have a few boats but need to organise more and get a better strategy to break through the naval blockade,” Lamont told this masthead on Wednesday from Amman, Jordan, where she was reunited with her twin daughters on Tuesday after five days in detention after her boat was boarded by Israeli security forces off the Gaza shoreline.
“What we experienced is absolutely nothing compared to what the Palestinians suffer every day,” said Lamont, who is from the Northern Rivers in NSW.
“We have a moral duty to do everything we can as ordinary citizens to break the siege in the absence of our government’s complicity in this genocide, even if that entails injury and incarceration.”
On Tuesday, seven Australian activists who joined a flotilla that tried to land in Gaza were released from Israel’s Ketziot Prison in the Negev Desert and deported to Jordan, claiming Israeli authorities subjected them to violence – including a detainee suffering a dislocated shoulder – threats and maltreatment and depriving prisoners of sleep and drinkable water.
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