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Israel minister’s video of kneeling flotilla activists triggers backlash

Israel's far-right national security minister posted a video on Wednesday showing detained activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla kneeling with their hands tied and foreheads on the ground, sparking international condemnation.

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00:00A video showing detained activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla kneeling with their hands tied and foreheads on the ground
00:06has drawn criticism and condemnations.
00:09The video, posted on X by Israeli Firebrand Minister Itamar Ben, drew Swift International APRO, including from Israel's Prime Minister
00:18Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gideon Saar.
00:21Yesterday there was a brutality that cannot be described in words and overall shows that there are Hamas fighters on
00:28every side and immoral and illegitimate people on every side.
00:33I am very ashamed and if I can't be ambassador of goodwill, not that anyone appointed me, then I ask
00:39forgiveness from the nations of the world for the Israeli brutality.
00:43Around 50 verses under the Global Samud Flotilla set sail from Turkey last week in the latest attempt by activists
00:50to breach Israel's blockade of Gaza after Israeli forces intercepted a previous convoy last month.
00:56Ben Gvir does not represent me as an Israeli at all. I do not feel that he is part of
01:01my people or that he is my brother. I loved him as I love Sinwar. He belongs to the extremists
01:07because of whom there are wars.
01:10Netanyahu Hadi Ali denounced the flotilla is a malicious scheme designed to break the blockade imposed on Hamas in Gaza.
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