International outrage mounts over Israeli minister’s video of detained activists

Footage shared by Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Ben-Gvir, which shows activists from a Gaza-bound aid convoy bound by their hands and forced to press their foreheads to the ground by armed Israeli guards, has triggered an international diplomatic firestorm.

Multiple governments have condemned Israel’s treatment of the aid activists, calling it a violation of human dignity and summoning Israeli diplomats for formal reprimands.

 Michael Lynk, former UN special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, spoke to Al Jazeera earlier, saying that the flotilla activists abducted by Israel have broken no laws and “committed no crime known to international law or even domestic law”.

Their abuse at the hands of Israeli guards and the country’s far-right security minister, Ben-Gvir, has only become an international issue because it was recorded and publicised “to the world”, he said.