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A Gaza Flotilla member, Anna Liedtke, who was attempting to deliver aid to Palestinians in Gaza describes a horrifying experience of being raped while in Israeli detention. Here is her harrowing account: On 10 October, Liedtke was moved once more, to Givon prison. There she was again taken to an area only partly closed off from view by a curtain, and ordered to strip. When she refused, guards pulled off her clothes, groped her and forced her to kneel. One of them inserted her fingers into Liedtke’s vagina and then her anus, Liedtke said. “There were two and then later three female soldiers that told me to take off my clothes,” she said. “They started touching me. I said no. I told them I don’t want to be touched and that they were hurting me. Then they grabbed my hands, so I couldn’t move, then they pushed me down and I still tried to scream, and then they covered my mouth so I couldn’t scream.” Humiliation added to the pain of the physical assault. “I remember the male soldiers laughing, just standing there laughing. I know they were able to see everything because the curtain was not fully closed.” — It’s not a good look that as a Democrat, you continue to be apathetic in light of the numerous, numerous, amount of abuses and crimes being perpetuated by Israel. If you have the moral clarity to oppose ICE in the US, you should have the moral clarity to oppose Israel’s crimes against humanity.