Two Massachusetts brothers who were detained after Israeli forces intercepted an international humanitarian aid mission have been released, their mother confirmed.

Adnaan and Torleif Stumo, both from Sheffield, were sailing with the Global Sumud Flotilla , a volunteer coalition arranged to deliver food and aid to Gaza, when their boats were intercepted by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). They, along with more than 450 other volunteers from 45 countries, were then brought to the port of Ashdod and held at Ketziot prison in the Negev desert.

Nadia Milleron, the brothers’ mother, first caught wind that her sons had been released when she spotted them in a video of detainees being ushered out of a prison transport trailer. She shared her excitement and relief with a screenshot of them

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