{"id":478087,"date":"2026-06-05T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/478087\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:20:08","slug":"france-launches-war-crimes-torture-probe-into-israeli-treatment-of-gaza-flotilla-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/478087\/","title":{"rendered":"France launches war crimes, torture probe into Israeli treatment of Gaza flotilla activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">France&#8217;s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor&#8217;s Office (PNAT) has opened an investigation into torture and war crimes linked to the treatment of French activists aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla intercepted by Israeli forces, French media reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">The investigation was launched after a referral by French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot concerning the treatment of French nationals on the vessel.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Barrot told France Inter on Friday that he had referred the matter to the public prosecutor under Article 40 of France&#8217;s Code of Criminal Procedure after receiving information about violence against French activists aboard the flotilla, which was intercepted by the Israeli navy off Cyprus on May 18.<\/p>\n<p textalign=\"\" class=\"\">Several activists who claimed they had been subjected to torture have been interviewed by investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France&#8217;s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor&#8217;s Office (PNAT) has opened an investigation into torture and war crimes linked to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-478087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}