Yasemin Acar, an activist who was part of the Global Sumud aid flotilla sailing to Gaza, claims that her and other fellow activists were "tortured" by Israeli authorities after their ships were intercepted in international waters by the Israeli military. "We were physically assaulted, we were deprived of sleep, we could not sleep. We didn't have any clean water. The first 48 hours there was no food, no water at all," she says. SOUNDBITES