Middle East Crisis Protests

More and more countries protest Israel's actions: "Shameful"

A wide range of countries are reacting to the video in which the country's Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir humiliates activists from the Gaza convoy. This is reported by several news agencies.

Italy, France, Spain, Ireland, Canada, Belgium and the Netherlands are summoning Israel's ambassadors in protest, according to AFP and Reuters.

"I am horrified and shocked by the video in which illegally captured participants in the Global Sumud Flotilla are treated completely without dignity and respect," writes Irish Foreign Minister Helen McEntee on X.

Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares calls the actions "monstrous, shameful and inhumane," writes AFP. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni demands an apology. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot says that French citizens must be treated with respect and released as soon as possible, according to Reuters.

British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper writes on X that she has demanded an explanation from Israeli authorities. Germany, Greece and Turkey condemn Israel's treatment of the activists, according to AFP.

Security minister humiliates activists: "This is how we receive terrorist supporters"

Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has posted a video on his official X account in which he humiliates captured activists from the Gaza convoy Global Sumud Flotilla.

- Welcome to Israel. This is how we receive terrorist supporters, he says to the activists who have been forced to kneel, tied behind their backs with cable ties and with their faces to the ground.

The video clip shows how the police push and drag the activists across the floor of a port building in the city of Ashdod. Ben-Gvir laughs and holds up an Israeli flag while the national anthem is played.

- Do not be disturbed by their screams, he tells the police, according to Haaretz.

Italy, France, Spain and Ireland have summoned Israel's ambassadors to protest the action, according to AFP.

US: "Ben-Gvir has betrayed his country's dignity"

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee joins the long line of diplomats criticizing the treatment of captured convoy activists, the Times of Israel reports.

"The convoy was a stupid move, but Ben-Gvir has betrayed his country's dignity," he writes on X.

Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has released a video in which he mocks the arrested activists who were forced to kneel and tied behind their backs with cable ties. Foreign ministers from more than a dozen countries whose citizens are among the activists have summoned Israel's ambassadors in protest.

Huckabee emphasizes in his post that "all" high-ranking Israeli representatives from the prime minister and president to the foreign minister and Israel's ambassador to the United States have reacted with outrage and condemnation to Ben-Gvir's "heinous actions."