Footage on social media appears to show Israeli security minister Ben Gvir shouting at flotilla campaigners detained by the Israeli military. Video: Push.il
The captured flotilla sailors could be seen sitting cross-legged under armed guard in a fenced-off warehouse area of the port of Ashdod, some with their passports out on the ground, as the far-right Israeli security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir berated them.
“There are the flotilla terrorists, they are terrorists,” Ben-Gvir declared in footage that was filmed and passed to an online news channel known for publishing content favourable to the Netanyahu government. “Look at them, supporters of murderers.”
Sixteen Irish citizens were among those detained by Israel as it halted the Global Sumud Flotilla, the largest-ever civilian attempt to break a 17-year naval blockade on Gaza campaigners say must end to allow food an
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