A Macomb Township attorney and human rights activist returned home Thursday after she says she was detained by Israeli military for the second time in two months.

Huwaida Arraf, a Palestinian American human rights attorney and Freedom Flotilla Coalition organizer, says she was released Sunday and landed back in Michigan Thursday afternoon. She was detained along with everyone aboard a flotilla that set sail Sept. 30.

"It was really beautiful actually. It was hard to hold back tears," Arraf said about her reunion with friends and family at Detroit Metro Airport.

She says the flotilla, carrying medicine, baby food and teddy bears, was intercepted by Israeli forces. Arraf was aboard a boat called the Conscious with 92 people, about half of whom were medics and journalists.

"My daughter, I

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