France bans Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir after ‘unspeakable’ flotilla detainee taunts
France barred Itamar Ben-Gvir after a video showed him taunting more than 430 detained flotilla activists, and officials urged EU sanctions.
- On Saturday, France banned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from entering the country following a video showing him mocking bound activists seized from the Global Sumud Flotilla.
- Public outcry followed after Ben-Gvir published the video on Wednesday showing him heckling detainees, an act French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot called "reprehensible actions towards French and European citizens."
- Activists departed from Turkey last week on around 50 vessels under the Global Sumud Flotilla, with Israeli forces intercepting the convoy and detaining participants at the southern port of Ashdod.
- Italy previously banned Ben-Gvir last week, while Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani demanded an apology for the "total disrespect" shown to the government and called for European Union-level sanctions.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the flotilla mission as a "malicious scheme," yet acknowledged Ben-Gvir's treatment of the activists was "not in line with Israel's values and norms.
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France bans Israeli min Ben Gvir over Gaza flotilla incident
Paris: French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has said that Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir had been banned from entering France effective immediately. In a post on social platform X, Barrot said on Saturday that the decision followed Ben-Gvir’s “unqualifiable” actions toward French and European citizens aboard the Gaza-bound Global Sumud flotilla. “We cannot tolerate French nationals being threatened, intimidated or subjec…
Prohibition of entry into national territory: our brutalized citizens. Farnesina does not adopt the same measure but insists on EU sanctions
France banned the entry into its territory of the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, after the broadcast of a video in which he appeared humiliating members of the Peace Flotilla to Gaza, according to the EFE agency.The announcement was made this Saturday by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, who confirmed that Ben Gvir has been banned from entering French territory since now. “From today, Itamar Ben G…
France has banned Ben-Gvir's entry. The trigger is a video with Gaza flotilla activists. Now the pressure on the EU is growing.
Annunciation was published on the social network of the French Foreign Minister and occurs after an international reaction against video showing activists detained by Israel.
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