Sunday, May 24, 2026. Lenapehoking (New York City) – 15 U.S. humanitarians that were aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla will return to the United States of America on May 24, 2026. They will arrive at the JFK airport at 10:30 AM. They are asking pro-Palestine New Yorkers to show up in support.
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On Saturday, May 23, 2026, Alex Colston said on X, “15 U.S. delegates of the Global Sumud Flotilla will be returning to the United States at JFK airport on Sunday morning.”
Alex Colston added, “We are asking people to show up in support, as some participants have been detained for questioning, because of the groundless criminalization of the flotilla movement by the state department and federal authorities.”
Alex Colston is an independent journalist from Brooklyn, New York City.
Rosa Martinez and Alex Colston were at least two of the humanitarians from New York City who were among the 480 activists Israel kidnapped from the Global Sumud Flotilla that was sailing to Gaza, Palestine.
On Wednesday, May 20, 2026, Israeli Minister of National Security, zionist , terrorist, war criminal Itamar Ben Gvir shared a video on social media with some of the KIDNAPPED humanitarians from the Global Sumud Flotilla, who were mistreated, held in a grueling stress position, and forced to listen to the zionist’s national anthem.
Israel has approximately 10 thousand Indigenous Palestinian HOSTAGES in concentration camps where zionists torture and kill Palestinians.
A petition by the Palestinian Youth Movement says, in part, “While Israel has waged a genocide on Gaza – a parallel escalation has unfolded in the West Bank through violent laws, courts, and bureaucracies designed to make life unlivable. Amongst the most severe policies has been a brutal escalation of violence against Palestinian prisoners. As Israel moves forward in legalizing the execution of political prisoners, it is clear that Israel not only uses prisons as an instrument of control to instill fear in the collective Palestinian psyche— Israel is turning prisons into specialized death camps.” Click here to read the full petition and sign it.
“This crime of abducting humanitarian activists from international waters, and torturing and humiliating them, activists who have been trying to break a cruel, terrorist siege imposed by an occupying and terrorist power and tolerated by the majority of the world’s governments, is a dark stain on the face of humanity,” said Mosab Abu Toha, May 20, 2026.
On Wednesday, May 20, 2026, the Global Sumud Flotilla said, “Netanyahu’s performative outrage over Ben Gvir’s treatment of flotilla activists exposes the regime’s desperate attempt to control its own narrative while maintaining the same brutal system.” They added, “This isn’t about one minister — it’s about the entire colonial machine.”
People in Gaza marched in support of the kidnapped humanitarians from the Global Sumud Flotilla, on May 20, 2026.
On Thursday, May 21, 2026, Alex Colston said on X, “Hi, thankfully, all of the people who sailed with GSF, myself included, were released this morning after extremely severe abuse and mistreatment by the Israelis, from the container ship prison boat to Ashdod port to Kitziot.
There is much more to report and say about our detainment, but I can say it’s worse than ive experienced across my times in Israeli custody.
If they can do these heinous things to us, just imagine what they can and been documented doing to Palestinians—every day and without accountability.
GSF participants spent the whole day giving legal testimony, getting full physicals and blood and urine testing, and receiving medical care. More soon. Will be taking and reporting testimonies and sharing more of my experience.”
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Tuesday, May 18, 2021. New York City – Thousands of Palestinians, Jews, Latinas, Latinos, Asians, Blacks, Whites, and others shut down different streets in New York City to support the Palestine Strike. Organizers called the demonstration: “Shut down Zionism to support the #PalestineStrike.” The demonstration was organized by NY4Palestine, Al-Awda NY, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Within our Lifetime • United for Palestine, Jews for Palestinian Right of Return and Labor for Palestine. THIS PHOTO: Protesters waving flags of Palestine. In the background, the Chrysler Building and other skyscrapers in Manhattan. Photo by Javier Soriano/www.JavierSoriano.com