Israel/Palestine

Here is a link of people from Humboldt County on this and past flotillas. The Beaver brothers are from my zip code but I do not know them. There are many links in this photo essay and links to four earlier photo essays from Redhead Blackbelt.

Two Humboldt Residents Detained as Israeli Military Intercepts Global Sumud Flotilla — Again

The phone call never came.

Silas Beaver had reached out just 24 hours before we believe he was captured by the Israeli military on May 18, as we tried to coordinate a long-distance interview. “Hey …let’s do something asap,” he wrote on May 17, as the sailboat the Humboldt County resident was on sailed toward Gaza’s territorial waters. “We’re getting to the point where we could be scooped up anytime. Again.”

Now Silas Beaver is in Israeli custody – his location and condition unknown.

But he’s not alone. Somewhere within the group of over 400 of civilian volunteers taken from 50 different vessels caught in the Israeli Navy’s flotilla dragnet through international waters, is another Humboldt County man– Greg Terry, of Arcata.

A Second Interception in International Waters

Link to photo essay: https://kymkemp.com/2026/05/19/two-humboldt-residents-detained-as-israeli-military-intercepts-global-sumud-flotilla-again/