Theresa McDermott

Theresa McDermott (born c. 1967) is a postal worker from Edinburgh who has been involved in the Free Gaza Movement.

During 2005-06 she was detained by Israeli authorities while trying to attend a conference in the West Bank on non-violent resistance. Her MP, Mark Lazarowicz, raised this issue in Parliament.[1] In 2009 she was detained by the Israelis in Ramleh when she was captured taking part in an attempt to break the siege of Gaza on board a Lebanese freighter.[2][3]

In 2010 she was among those captured by Israel in the Gaza flotilla.[4] Just before all electronic communication with the convoy was cut off, she managed to get a text message to Sandra White MSP.[5]

On 6 June 2010 an interview with her by David Pratt appeared in the Sunday Herald. In it she gave an eyewitness account of the Israeli assault on the Free Gaza aid flotilla, detailing the violence perpetrated on the activists, including herself, by the Israeli Defence Force.[6]

References
  1. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmhansrd/vo060126/text/60126w03.htm#60126w03.html_wqn8 |chapter-url= missing title (help). Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). House of Commons. 26 January 2006. col. 2243W–2244W.
  2. Alison Campsie (31 May 2010). "Missing Scot had warned of bloody outcome". The Herald.
  3. Hazel Mollison (21 February 2009). "Gunpoint arrest ordeal won't stop my return to Gaza". The Scotsman.
  4. "Concern for Scots on Gaza aid flotilla". BBC. 31 May 2010.
  5. James Moncur (1 June 2010). "Fears for Scots on Gaza aid flotilla after Israeli assault on ships". Daily Record.
  6. David Pratt (6 June 201). "Fear, pain and propaganda: an activist's story". Sunday Herald.


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