2023 Freedom Flotilla people on the boat Handala
Fadwa is from Belgium, a software engineer and researcher in blockchain technology, committed to open source projects. Alongside her profession, she organizes free socio-cultural events, produces electronic music, and promotes artists through her label, while also volunteering for several NGOs supporting social justice and migrant rights. She joins the Freedom Flotilla in solidarity with the […]
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Devoney Ellis is a recent graduate and aspiring human rights lawyer from St. John’s, Newfoundland. During their sociology and anthropology degree they focused on learning from decolonial scholars to gain a deeper understanding of systemic oppression. After learning more about the important role of resistance and collective action against global injustice, Devoney felt driven to
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Dr Hafiz Sulaiman is a Medical graduate from International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM) and has been practicing medicine since 2007. His passion is in functional medicine, allergies and food intolerance. He was deeply inspired by his teacher in IIUM i.e. Prof Dr Zainur Rashid as well as courageous examples set by Mr Noor Azman
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I am a Palestinian-American emergency medicine physician from a small, laid-back town on the Atlantic Ocean on the East coast of Florida called Ormond Beach. Like a majority of Palestinians, I was born and raised in the diaspora of different countries, enduring various levels of suffering and discrimination in refugee camps, that my parents lived
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Spanish marine engineer and human rights defender Sergio Toribio was a crew volunteer on the Freedom Flotilla Madleen mission in June 2025. Afterwards, he filed a war crimes complaint in Spain against Israeli PM Netanyahu and top Israeli officials for the violent attack on the FreedomFlotilla in international waters. He returns now as engineer on
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Waad Aal Musa is an Iraqi-American journalist and accomplished cameraman currently working with Al Jazeera. With over 22 years of experience in the field, he has covered hundreds of major global events, bringing critical stories to audiences around the world. Waad holds a Master’s degree in Cinema from New York City, combining his artistic vision
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Chloé is a former United Nations staff member and scientist. She resigned from the UN to join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and break the institutional silence, as Palestinians in Gaza continue to be bombed, starved, and erased by Israel and their allies with impunity and under the watch of the very institutions meant to protect
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Teacher, peace researcher, and journalist committed to peace, militarization, the environment, human rights, and the fight against mafia crime. He worked in different cooperative projects in Albania, Bosnia y Herzegovina, Colombia, Brasil, Cuba, Uruguay, Guatemala and Honduras. He received the “G. Bassani – Italia Nostra 2010” Award for journalism and, in 2013, the second national
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Antonio La Picirella was born in Bari in 1990 and raised within the social justice movements of Southern Italy. After spending time in Northern Europe as an active member of the Berlin Migrant Strikers, he moved to America. He was present at the Tijuana border in 2018 during the Honduran exodus, and later in Chiapas
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Tan (Tania) was born in Gadigal country to parents who fled Lebanon after surviving the Israeli invasions in the 70s and 80s. They are a documentary film maker who has worked with NGOs fighting against human rights abuses, child trafficking, sex slavery, deaths in custody and more. They have lived in Palestinian and Syrian refugee
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