Fresh from being detained by the Israeli Navy and deported from Israel after an attempt to break the Gaza blockade, Madeleine Habib is home on Tasmanian soil, balancing in a pick-up truck while holding a piece of art she plans to recycle.
The ship’s captain and humanitarian activist left Hobart in August to skipper the all-female Women’s Boat to Gaza, embarking on a 15-metre yacht from Barcelona in mid-September to sail to the 40-kilometre-long Gaza shoreline via Corsica and Sicily.
Read the full article by Daisy Dumas at the Brisbane Times.