San Francisco native Logan Hollarsmith is being held in a high-security prison near the city of Ashdod in Israel after he was detained last week along with hundreds of other activists who were traveling by boat to bring supplies and humanitarian aid to Gaza. 

Hollarsmith, 33, captained the Ohwayla vessel, which was intercepted on Thursday, according to the website of Global Sumud Flotilla, the coalition that organized the fleet of 42 boats bringing humanitarian support to Gaza. The site said 296 members of the flotilla are being held captive and 166 have been freed. The mission of the flotilla was to create a humanitarian corridor to Gaza.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.