Gold Coast grandmother’s outlawed message on Israeli-issued prison clothes

“The statement I’m making here is how on earth can this be an illegal thing to say? You’re going to charge me and sentence me to two years jail when the Australian government cannot even deal with their own responsibilities for international law?” she said. “If [Queensland premier David] Crisafulli wants to put me in jail for this, I willingly go once you hold that regime accountable for a genocide.” O’Sullivan, a social work field educator who now lives on the Gold Coast, conceded the flotilla had, at least partially, been about attracting publicity. “Our mission was not just to take aid and break the illegal siege on Gaza … but was to try and bring your attention to a genocide that is occurring in Gaza, and that has been going on for decades and decades,” she said. “What we experienced is a glimpse of what Palestinians have been experiencing from the Israeli military for decades.”