Personal reflections from a participant on the ship Conscience in the most recent attempt to break the siege of Gaza.
Author: Edward DiGilio
Edward DiGilio is a a boat repair technician, boat-builder and marine mechanic, and peace activist who works in the areas of global health, nuclear weapons abolition and Palestinian human rights. He has been on the crew of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition ships Handala (in 2024) and the Madleen (in 2025) for short trips in the Mediterranean. He was the ship’s mechanic on the 2025 Conscience. He has been a member of the Ground Zero Center for Non-Violent Action in Poulsbo, WA, for the past 11 years. He lives in Maryland on the Chesapeake Bay.