Members of the European Parliament condemned Israel’s mistreatment of activists aboard the Sumud Global Flotilla after Israeli forces detained them in international waters earlier this week, reports Anadolu.

Belgian MEP Marc Botenga said European citizens were first kidnapped in the Mediterranean and then abused, beaten and humiliated by Israel.

“If it was Russia, Europe would already be in state of war. But it is Israel. So people minimize it, talk about an isolated minister and maintain a partnership with the aggressor state,” he wrote on the American platform X.

Rima Hassan, a Franco-Palestinian member of the European Parliament, said that the Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir is not “the cause of evil, but the expression of a colonial state that made it possible”.

the system; it is the Israeli colonial state that produces figures like him. He is merely a symptom, not the cause,” she wrote on X.

The reactions came after Ben-Gvir released a video on Wednesday in which he was seen mocking pro-Palestinian activists, who appeared to be handcuffed and forced to kneel after being detained by Israeli forces in international waters.

The video drew criticism both within Israel and internationally. internationally.

Israeli forces attacked the humanitarian flotilla in international waters on Monday and detained all activists on board.

The flotilla, carrying 428 people from 44 countries, had set out from the Turkish district of Marmaris in an attempt to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, imposed since 2007.

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