SHOTLIST: VIENNA, AUSTRIA (OCT. 7, 2025) (ANADOLU - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WAITING FOR GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA ACTIVISTS AT WIEN MITTE TRAIN STATION HOLDING BANNERS AND CHANTING SLOGANS 2. VARIOUS OF ACTIVISTS ARRIVING AT STATION APLAUDING AND GESTURING PEACE SIGN AS PEOPLE CHEER AND CHANT SLOGANS / PEOPLE HUG ACTIVIST AND GIVE FLOWERS TO THEM/ ACTIVISTS WAVING PALESTINIAN FLAGS AND CHANTING SLOGANS 3. AUSTRIAN ACTIVIST OF EGYPTIAN ORIGIN FROM GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA, ASHRAF ABDELRAHMAN, DELIVERING SPEECH 4. AUSTRIAN ACTIVIST FROM GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA, JULIAN SCHUTTER, DELIVERING SPEECH 5. ACTIVISTS MARIE SOPHIE HEHLE, ABDELRAHMAN, SCHUTTER, HOLDING PALESTINAIN FLAG AND APPLAUINGVIENNA, AUSTRIA - OCT. 7, 2025: Three Austrian activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla were welcomed by more than 100 people at Vienna’s Wien Mitte train station with pro-Palestine slogans on Tuesday, Oct. 7. The crowd, which came to greet Julian Schutter, Marie Sophie Hehle, and Egypt-born Austrian citizen Ashraf Abdelrahman, carried Palestinian flags and chanted slogans such as “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” Abdelrahman told the audience about the torture they endured during their arrest by the Israeli army. He said they were forced to sit on the cold ground all night with their hands tied behind their backs, and an activist suffering an asthma attack was denied treatment. Schutter emphasized that, on the second anniversary of the October 7 attacks, Israel’s genocide in Gaza is still ongoing. Protesters organized a march toward the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Israeli naval forces attacked and seized vessels from the Global Sumud Flotilla last week, detaining more than 470 activists from over 50 countries. The flotilla was trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza and challenge Israel’s blockade of the enclave. Israel has maintained the blockade of Gaza, home to nearly 2.4 million people, for almost 18 years. Since October 2023, Israeli military operations have killed more than 67,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them women and children. The relentless bombardment has rendered the enclave all but uninhabitable, with widespread starvation and the spread of disease. Reporting by Salih Okuroglu / Writing by Ayse Elif Erdis