Canada and the Netherlands say that they will both also summon their Israeli ambassadors to protest after National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir shared a video taunting detained Gaza flotilla activists.
Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand says: “What we’ve seen, including the video shared by Itamar Ben Gvir, is deeply troubling and absolutely unacceptable,” she tells reporters on a conference call. “This is a matter we take very, very seriously. It’s a matter of humane treatment of civilians, and I can assure you that we are acting with absolute urgency.”
Dutch Foreign Minister Tom Berendsen says that “the images shared by extremist Minister Ben Gvir of detained flotilla activists are shocking and unacceptable.”
“This treatment of detainees violates basic human dignity. I raised this directly with my Israeli colleague Gideon Sa’ar and will summon the Israeli ambassador,” he writes in a post on X.
The activists were aboard a flotilla that was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters yesterday and later taken to an Israeli port.
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