German journalist says Israeli prison authorities raped her

German journalist Anna Liedtke has accused Israeli prison authorities of raping her. Liedtke was part of the Freedom Flotilla which was intercepted and detained by Israel. Speaking publicly on the matter, the journalist said that she had been subjected to sexual violence during her prison transfer by Zionist Israeli forces.

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“It did not break my will”

In a video shared by Drop Site, Liedtke shared her harrowing experience inside an Israeli prison:

I was part of the Freedom Flotilla as a journalist. I was on the journalist and medical boat, the Conscience, on the way to Gaza this fall. Around 100 nautical miles away from the coast of Gaza, we were intercepted. We were put into prison for five days. And in this speech, as a woman, I want to talk about the sexual violence I experienced in prison.

I do not want to talk about it just to put the focus on myself because it is nothing personal; it is nothing individual, and it’s nothing that I should be ashamed about.

We were transferred from one prison to another and during the strip searches I was raped. I’m sharing this as again, to say it again, and not just for me and not just because I’m the only one that experienced it, because this is not true. I’m sharing it for all the women who experience sexual violence and sexual torture in the prisons; for all the women who have experienced similar horrible things in the prison, and probably are experiencing them right now as we’re speaking on this conference.

I’m speaking on behalf of those who did not survive those attacks, those who cannot speak about it because they are still in prison. And again, I am not the one that should feel ashamed.

It is the Zionist states and its prisons, its guards, who should feel ashamed. But on the other hand, there is nothing else to expect from states like those. A couple of times we heard from Palestinian prisoners, especially from female prisoners, about the situation in the Zionist prison. So what else should we expect from Zionist prisons, from the Zionist fascist states?

One thing is very important: It did not break my will.

There are so many role models, so many women comrades, so many brave women I take a lot of strength from. And looking back at history, women have always been stronger than that.

And I will end my speech with saying this. I will not stop fighting for justice and the end of violence until every woman is free and has received justice. I will not stop fighting until patriarchy does not exist.

Drop Site

The video of Liedtke can be found here. We would ordinarily include the post in the article, but for some reason we cannot embed it. We can’t confirm if the issue is due to a glitch or if Twitter/X is preventing it from being shared, but the following is a screengrab of the tweet:

Other videos of Liedtke, including this one, are still sharable:

In a shocking testimony, German journalist and activist Anna Liedtke says Israeli soldiers raped her after she was abducted from an international aid ship bound for Gaza earlier this year. pic.twitter.com/g74Tt46aYH

— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 27, 2025

We can also share tweets which include the same video as the Drop Site post:

German journalist Anna Liedtke who was part of the Freedom Coalition Flotilla that sailed to break the blockade on Gaza was r@@ped by the IDF in Israëli detention.
She revealed this horrible detail now because she didn't want to distract the global attention from #Gaza genocide pic.twitter.com/RrMCflHiR8

— Saif Maher (@SaifMaher421388) December 25, 2025

We can additionally share other posts from Drop Site:

🔴 “There’s a killing mechanism that has been created… [by] the U.S. and Israel together. They have made conditions in Gaza so deplorable, so incompatible with human life.. These conditions are completely manufactured. And now, you don’t need a single bomb to continue killing… https://t.co/KZ3Go7erX9

— Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) December 28, 2025

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