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According to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, “All the Freedom Flotilla and Thousand Madleen boats were pirated in the early hours of October 8, 2025.”
Among the crew on the flotilla is Tom Hayes, a documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Film at Ohio University, currently serving as a media volunteer.
Hayes was sailing on a boat called the Conscience, carrying dozens of international journalists and medical professionals from 25 countries. The Conscience was on a mission to break Israel‘s illegal siege of Gaza, challenge Israel’s media blackout of Gaza, and affirm the Palestinian people’s right to live in freedom and dignity.
Ohio University Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine join the Freedom Flotilla Coalition in demanding the following:
· An end to Israel’s illegal and deadly blockade of Gaza;
· An end to Israel’s genocide of Gaza;
· The immediate release of all abducted volunteers;
· The immediate delivery of humanitarian aid directly to Palestinians, independent of Israeli control;
· Full accountability for the military assaults on our flotilla boats.
Link for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and press release:
https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/10/08/iof-attacks/
Pre-recorded messages from the crew:
https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/10/08/boats-pirated/
Link to Hayes’s profile at the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and Ohio University:
