Israeli minister stirs outrage after taunting detained activists
發佈日期: 2026-05-21 20:36
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Israel's national security minister drew a sharp rebuke from his boss and triggered a backlash abroad, after he released videos of taunting and telling detained activists that they should be imprisoned for a very long time.
"Free free Palestine!" "Quiet, quiet," the guard says as he forcefully lowers the activist to the ground.
Itamar Ben Gvir, Israeli National Security Minister waving Israeli flag, saying "Welcome to Israel, we are the landlords".
The activists from the flotilla that tried to reach Gaza seen handcuffed on the ground.
Ben-Gvir has drawn sharp rebuke from his boss and triggered a backlash abroad after the release of the videos.
He said, "They came here all full of pride, like big heroes, look at them now. Look how they look now, not heroes at all, just supporters of terrorism. I say to Prime Minister Netanyahu, give them to me for a long, long time, give them to us for the terrorist prisons, that's what it should look like."
British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said videos of Ben-Gvir taunting detained flotilla activists showed a "total disrespect and violation of basic standards of human dignity" in how people should be treated and demanded an explanation from Israeli authorities.
Cooper said, "We see these totally disgraceful scenes in this video shared by Israeli cabinet minister Ben Gvir which shows a total disrespect and violation of basic standards of human dignity in the way that people were being treated. Completely appalled and we have sent a summons to the Israeli Embassy because we need the urgent explanation as to how this could happen."
Meanwhile on Iran, US President Donald Trump told reporters Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "will do whatever I want him to do."
Trump said: "He's a very good man. He'll do whatever I want him to and he's a great guy. To me, he's great guy. Don't forget, he was a wartime prime minister. And he's not treated right in Israel, in my opinion. I'm right now at 99 percent in Israel. I could run for prime minister, so maybe after I do this, I'll go to Israel, run for Prime Minister."
"I had a poll this morning, I'm 99 percent. So that's good. But, no, he's a wartime Prime Minister, and I just don't think they treat him well. I think they have a president over there that treats him very poorly," he said.
