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    The Hawick Paper


    ‘I wanted to do more for Gaza’

    Friday, October 10th, 2025 - Written by GRAHAM FORD
    Yvonne Ridley

    Bonchester Bridge’s Yvonne Ridley has this week told of her “kidnap and capture” by Israel, after trying to breach its naval blockade of Gaza to deliver aid.

    The journalist and activist, who has lived at Wolfelee Cottage since 2011, was previously detained for 11 days by the Taliban in Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. 

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