France has announced it had banned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from entry for a video mocking bound activists seized by Israeli soldiers on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.<\/p>\n
“From today, Itamar Ben-Gvir is banned from entering French territory” after “his reprehensible actions towards French and European citizens” who were part of the humanitarian flotilla, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on X.<\/p>\n
He added that, with Italy, he was also calling for European Union-level sanctions against the far-right Israeli minister.<\/p>\n
The ban follows a global outcry after Mr Ben-Gvir published a video on Wednesday showing the heavy-handed treatment of foreign activists from the flotilla.<\/p>\n
They were detained by Israel in international waters and were awaiting deportation at the southern port of Ashdod.<\/p>\n
In the video, dozens of activists are seen forced to kneel with their foreheads to the ground and their hands tied.<\/p>\n
The clip, which was captioned “Welcome to Israel”, also showed Mr Ben-Gvir heckling the activists while waving an Israeli flag.<\/p>\n
Spain has also urged the EU to sanction Mr Ben-Gvir while the United Kingdom summoned Israel’s most senior diplomat in Britain following “the inflammatory video”.<\/p>\n
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Mr Ben-Gvir’s treatment of the activists was “not in line with Israel’s values and norms”.<\/p>\n
Mr Netanyahu had earlier denounced the humanitarian aid mission as a “malicious scheme” intended to support Hamas.<\/p>\n
The activists had departed from Turkey last week on around 50 vessels under the Global Sumud Flotilla. A number of I<\/a>rish activists have returned home today<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was the latest attempt by activists to breach Israel’s blockade of Gaza, after Israeli forces intercepted a previous convoy last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France has announced it had banned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from entry for a video mocking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-463569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}