Israel’s national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir released videos showing detained activists from a Gaza flotilla being taunted and handled in a makeshift detention setting. The videos included scenes of handcuffed activists kneeling with heads on the floor and activists being pushed down by security personnel while Ben-Gvir waved an Israeli flag and made remarks about Israel as “landlords.” Ben-Gvir said the activists should be imprisoned for a long time and appealed to Prime Minister Netanyahu to grant permission for detention in “terrorist prisons.” Netanyahu said Israel can stop provocative flotillas but that Ben-Gvir’s actions were not aligned with Israel’s values and norms, and ordered deportation as soon as possible. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar condemned the display and said it harmed the state.
"Netanyahu said that although Israel has every right to stop "provocative flotillas of Hamas terrorist supporters," the way National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir dealt with the activists was "not in line with Israel's values and norms." Ben-Gvir released videos Wednesday showing him walking among some of the approximately 430 detainees. In one, activists with their hands tied behind their backs are kneeling, their heads touching the floor inside what appears to be a makeshift detention area and on the deck of a ship."
"In another video, Ben-Gvir says the activists "came here all full of pride like big heroes. Look at them now," while appealing to Netanyahu to grant him permission to imprison them. Israel's leader calls for quick deportation of activists "I say to Prime Minister Netanyahu, give them to me for a long, long time, give them to us for the terrorist prisons," Ben-Gvir said. Netanyahu said he's given instructions that the activists be deported "as soon as possible.""
"Ben-Gvir drew the ire of Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, who publicly chastised his fellow minister on X, saying "you knowingly caused harm to our State in this disgraceful display." "No, you are not the face of Israel," Saar wrote. Ben-Gvir shot back at Saar in the Israeli parliament, accusing him of "bowing to the terrorists" and that any Israeli apology to the acti"
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