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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-20T14:00:08.000Z",
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    "Gaza-bound flotilla",
    "Global Sumud Flotilla activists",
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    "View this post on Instagram",
    "A post shared by Nukta Pakistan (@nukta.pakistan)",
    "set sail from Turkey last week"
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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nIsrael's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir posted a video on Wednesday showing detained activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla kneeling on the deck of a military boat, hands tied behind their backs, as Israel's national anthem played. The footage, captioned \"Welcome to Israel,\" was published on Ben Gvir's X account. It shows the minister waving an Israeli flag at a detention center in southern Israel, where more than 430 activists are being held.\n\n#### What did Ben Gvir's flotilla video show?\n\nThe video shows dozens of Global Sumud Flotilla activists kneeling on a metal floor in an unshaded area, hands bound, with Israel's national anthem playing. Ben Gvir is seen at the detention center encouraging staff and pushing down an activist who stood up and called out \"free free Palestine\" as the minister walked past.\n\n#### Who condemned Ben Gvir over the detained flotilla activists video?\n\nIsrael's Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Saar was among the first to speak out. \"You knowingly caused harm to our State in this disgraceful display, and not for the first time,\" Saar wrote on X, adding that Ben Gvir was \"not the face of Israel.\" The rebuke from within the cabinet signals the diplomatic damage the footage has caused.\n\n>        View this post on Instagram            A post shared by Nukta Pakistan (@nukta.pakistan)\n>\n\n\n\n\nLegal rights center Adalah also condemned the treatment of activists shown in the video. \"Israel is employing a criminal policy of abuse and humiliation against activists seeking to confront Israel's ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people,\" it said in a statement. Adalah's lawyers travelled to the detention center in southern Israel to meet with the more than 430 detained activists.\n\n#### What is the Global Sumud Flotilla?\n\nThe Global Sumud Flotilla set sail from Turkey last week in the latest attempt by activists to breach Israel's blockade of Gaza. Israeli forces intercepted the convoy and brought the boats to the port city of Ashdod. A previous flotilla was also intercepted by Israeli forces the month before.\n\nHamas, the Palestinian movement that controls parts of Gaza and whose October 7, 2023 attack on Israel sparked the ongoing war, also condemned the video. In a statement, it described Ben Gvir's actions as \"an expression of the moral depravity and sadism that govern the mentality of the leaders of the criminal enemy entity.\"",
  "title": "Israeli minister posts video of detained flotilla activists bound and forced to kneel"
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