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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Laura Pollock

UK summons Israeli charge d’affaires over 'inflammatory' flotilla video

Israel is releasing the hundreds of activists who attempted to breach the country’s naval blockade of Gaza to deliver aid (Image: Twitter/X)

THE Foreign Office has summoned the Israeli charge d’affaires over an “inflammatory” video of flotilla activists being assaulted in Israel posted by the country’s extremist security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Footage released by Ben-Gvir on Wednesday showed him walking among some of the approximately 430 detainees. In one, activists with their hands tied behind their backs are kneeling, their heads touching the floor inside what appears to be a makeshift detention area on the deck of a ship.

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