This is the Popular Front podcast with me Jake Hanrahan.

We're focused on the niche details of modern warfare and underreported conflict all across the world.

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Today we speak to journalist Henry Sulku.

He was recently on one of the major flotillas

heading to Gaza to try and break the siege and deliver humanitarian aid to Palestinians there.

He was intercepted. Their boat was taken by the Israeli military. Essentially they were

kidnapped, armed soldiers took them off

and they were put into prison.

Henry went through all this and was eventually deported.

He's going to tell us his experiences

during this failed flotilla trip.

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I think before we get into your incarceration, what happened when you got to Israel,

let's talk about the flotillo.

Why were you there?

What was the mission?

Yeah, tell us all about the flotillo.

Yeah, so basically the ship that I was part of called Conscience was,

it was organized in pretty short time frame.

As far as I understood the final preparations of the idea when the idea came up to send journalists and medics to Gaza it was organized in

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