Sadie Mees is free and will be coming back to Canada on Tuesday, meaning this is a happy Thanksgiving for the Mees and Crate families in Hastings.
The Trent Hills native, who was taken off a ship that was attempting to deliver medical supplies to Gaza and held in prison by Israeli forces, will be flying back to Newfoundland where she attends university.
Sadie and five other Canadians were taken off the Conscience last Wednesday. She and two other activists from Newfoundland were released on Sunday.
“She will be home in St. John’s on Tuesday at noon,” said Kira Mees, her mother. “Shane (her father) and I are going to be there when they arrive.”
Kira said that she managed to talk to Sadie by phone once she had been deported to Jordan. “Sadie sounded feisty as ever and it made me laugh/sob so hard with relief but of course she sounded feisty, it’s Sadie,” Kira posted online.
“[I’m feeling] overwhelming relief that Sadie and Nikita and Dev have been released from a, you know, a desert prison. And that they’re safe and they’re on their way home,” Sadie’s aunt, Vicki Axford told CBC News.
Thanks to the current ceasefire between Hamas and Israel food and medical supplies are starting to be allowed into Gaza.
The two other Canadians were released earlier and have already returned home. You can follow Palestine Action YYT on Facebook.
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