Adam Shapiro (husband of Huwaida Arraf) tried to get into Gaza last month on the Spirit of Humanity, the boat seized by the Israeli navy. He writes about it at Huffington Post:
Those of us with video cameras bore the brunt of the over-zealous
navy forces. We were beaten to break our grasp on the video cameras. I
have documented events from Afghanistan to Darfur to various locations
around the Middle East, but until then I had never been physically
attacked on account of my work. Israel's military censor continues to
hold the evidence and I expect never to retrieve it. With the evidence
gone, much of the media have treated the event as though it never
occurred.
Instead of sailing into Gaza's bombed and broken port, we were
kidnapped at gunpoint, taken to a foreign country, and imprisoned.
Instead of delivering toys to children in Azbet Abed Rabbo, where in
February I met families living in tents (again) because their homes
were left in rubble by Israel's December-January invasion, we stood at
attention for a prison guard to check our cell.
As other governments spoke up publicly for their citizens, the US government was notably silent.
