Emanuela Pala returns to Italy: "The Flotilla mission was a success, I would do it again a thousand times."

She returned safely to Rome on Saturday night, after a terrible experience in Israel.

Emanuela Pala, 38, a journalist from Sassari for Piazza Pulita , the program hosted by Corrado Formigli on La7, recounts her experience aboard the Global Sumud Flotilla in an interview that will be published tomorrow in the paper edition of L'Unione Sarda.
Operation Flotilla was a success : "The objective," Pala says, "was achieved. We reached Israel, and that was already a success because all it took was a sailboat to open a humanitarian corridor to Gaza. It was a media triumph: it means it can be done."

The journalist experienced prison: "They made us sleep in tiny cells, even though sleep is a relative concept, since in the middle of the night they would arrive with machine guns, point them at us, and herd us together before roll call. In prison, I wore the same clothes I wore when I returned to Italy: they confiscated our luggage and documents and mocked us, believing they were using psychological violence against us."

Pala is now in Rome, at home, surrounded by the love of her family who arrived from Sardinia: "I can't believe it, it's beautiful. But I would do the experience that ended last night a thousand times over."