The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) confirmed Tuesday that Israel released 14 journalists who had been arrested while reporting from the Conscience , a ship in the Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC).

According to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and CPJ, Israeli authorities arrested the journalists on October 8 near the Suez Canal. One journalist aboard, Emily Wilder, told CPJ that “the Israeli military encircled” the vessel and held the crew “captive for 12 hours” until the ship reached the port of Ashdod. Wilder said she told Israeli authorities that she was a member of the press and wore a press card around her neck. She said a soldier took her press notebook and remarked that, although later returned, “it had clearly been read.” Another interviewed journalist described having

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