I was beaten from the moment we entered the port until the very end, said Saverio Tommasi, an Italian journalist. Blows to my back, blows to my head and they [the Israeli soldiers] laughed, laughed at all of it. Anyone who failed to keep their eyes down was punished with a hit to the head. Israeli forces intercepted all the boats of the Global Sumud flotilla (GSF), carrying more than 400 people including parliamentarians and the environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg, last week.