A SCOTTISH activist has returned to Glasgow after the Global Sumud Flotilla was intercepted by Israeli forces.
Margaret Pacetta was one of four Scots detained by Israel after the aid mission was intercepted in international waters last week.
The 70-year-old was one of nine UK nationals deported on Saturday, with the status of James Hickey, Yvonne Ridley and Sid Khan yet to be confirmed.
Pacetta previously spoke to The National from Istanbul, where she described her "awful" experience inside the notorious Ketziot prison, located in the Negev desert in southern Israel, where human rights abuses have been well documented.
She claimed an Israeli officer slammed a metal door on her despite knowing she had a broken leg.
She said: "That prison was awful, the Negev. No food, no water.
"My broken leg, the girl said to me, 'oh, what happened to your leg?'. I said it's broke, and she slammed a metal door on it and went, 'sorry'. Horrible, horrible."
Pacetta was then sent on a chartered flight organised by the Turkish government from Istanbul, arriving back in Glasgow at 5:30pm on Monday.
She told The National from Glasgow Central Station that her medication was also confiscated by Israeli officials.
“I've got a really sore throat. They took all my meds. They took everything off me. My inhalers, my nebulizer. They eventually gave me the nebulizer back, but they threw the medicine for the nebulizer away," she said.
“This is all I had. They never gave me my rucksack. I have no clothes. These are Israeli prison bottoms."
She also described the conditions in more detail, saying it was "absolutely horrific".
"They blindfolded us. They put ties on our hands," Pacetta added.
She said that far-right Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir addressed the group of flotilla activists she was with at one point, to which she shouted: “Free Palestine”.
Pacetta also described being strip-searched and said the activists were given very little food and put in a cramped cell.
“They gave us ten slices of cucumber for 18 people. 4 stale bread, very stale – you could break your teeth in it actually. The cucumber was covered in ants,” she said.
Pacetta also said the prison officials engaged in intimidation and “psychological hames” including pointing guns in their faces.
But she added: "They never won. We weren't going to let them see it."
