Israel's national security minister Itamar Ben Gvir has filmed himself visiting the captured members of the Gaza flotilla and deriding them as "terrorists".
Footage released on X showed Ben Gvir in the detention centre where the members of the Global Sumud Flotilla were being held following their capture in international waters off the coast of Gaza on Wednesday.
"There are the flotilla terrorists, they are terrorists," the settler leader can be heard saying as he gestures at the activists.
"Look at them, supporters of murderers. By the way, in their ships it was a total mess. They didn't really come, not for the flotilla, not to help."
Some of the flotilla's activists can be heard chanting "Free Palestine" as they sit together on the ground.
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Ben Gvir later tours the ship they were on with a police commissioner and claims there was little or no aid other than some baby formula and suggests the boat's crew were instead having a "party" on board.
Israeli officials confirmed on Thursday that they had abducted 400 pro-Palestinian activists who were on board 41 ships in the flotilla, which was carrying aid to Gaza.
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