Greg Stokes — a US national who participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla and was detained by Israel — and three other Americans were released and deported, while 19 remain in Israel, independent outlet DropSite reports in a post on X.
“Conditions in the prison are kind of what you’d expect from a terror gulag: basically no showers, food scarcity. A lot of people are on hunger strike in protest to them (Israel) withholding insulin from our detainees,” Stokes said in a video posted by DropSite. “We were told ‘there are no doctors for animals’.
“We were told that they would try to get the rest of us out within 24-48 hours, but there is no transparency, none of us have seen lawyers [and] they are not following their own rules for self-deportation — you’re supposed to be out of the country in 24 … 72 hours. That hasn’t happened.”
Stokes speculates that the only reason he was released was because of pressure from his local representatives in Texas.
He added: “Everything that happened here is one-tenth … probably less than what Palestinians go through in extrajudicial detention in Israeli terror prisons.”
