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EU Commission Finds Treatment of Gaza Flotilla Activists Unacceptable
Reuters ^ | May 20, 2026

Posted on 05/20/2026 2:44:49 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

The European Commission found the treatment of the Gaza flotilla activists shown in a video released by Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is "completely unacceptable", a spokesperson said on Wednesday.

"Every detained person must be treated with safety, dignity and according to international law," spokesperson Anouar El Anouni said in a post on X. "We call on the Israeli government to ensure the protection and dignified treatment of these activists, including several EU citizens," he added.

Israeli police forced activists who were aboard a Gaza-bound aid flotilla to kneel on the ground in rows with their hands tied behind their backs while Ben-Gvir looked on, drawing criticism from foreign leaders and even from inside Israel's own government.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: European Union; Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Israel
KEYWORDS: 4threich; doomgoblin; europe; europeanunion; eurotrash; euroweenies; fartyshadesofgreen; flotilla; fourthreich; gaza; gretathunberg; ireland; israel; scoldilocks; scowlmonkey; slovenia; smugglers; spain; thunberg; voyageofthedamned

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1 posted on 05/20/2026 2:44:49 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’m sorry but Israel owes nothing to invaders and activists from other countries.


2 posted on 05/20/2026 2:49:45 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: MinorityRepublican

Gaza Flotilla members Pronouns are Chum / Shark Bait


3 posted on 05/20/2026 2:52:43 PM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This TagliCanne CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: Sam Gamgee

These sound like standard detain/arrest procedures. Kneel, put your hards behind your head, get cuffed, then taken to a booking and given a meal and some water. Not inhumane. Totally normal in all 1st world countries when a criminal is apprehended.

Gaza is not an independent country. Israel controls the borders. There are reasons Gaza is not an independent country that have nothing to do with Israel preventing it. Gaza and the West Bank rulers don’t want to declare independence. It comes with too much responsibilities and a lot of peril. That is why Arafat walked away from a deal nearly 30 years ago. Not because it was a bad deal, but just means renouncing their claim on Israeli sovereign territory.


4 posted on 05/20/2026 2:53:45 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They should be arrested for stupidity alone.

“On May 18, faced with blocked radio signals and impending detainment, some activists and influencers on the boats tossed packets of chocolate and plastic water bottles packed with dried food into the Mediterranean Sea.

They took this action hoping the ocean currents would carry the treats to the children in Gaza.”

https://thesun.my/going-viral/videographer-triggers-backlash-after-throwing-chocolates-into-sea-for-gaza-children/


5 posted on 05/20/2026 2:55:59 PM PDT by CFW
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Totally agree with the EU on this one.

The sandwiches the Izzys fed the arrested flotilla activists were not halal, had too much onions and the wrong type of mustard .

The deportation flights were not first class seating.

Such oppression must be condemned

6 posted on 05/20/2026 2:59:04 PM PDT by rdcbn1 (..when poets buy guns, tourist season is over................Walter R. Mead)
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“… to kneel on the ground in rows with their hands tied behind their backs…”

That was just before the Israelis released their rape dogs….


7 posted on 05/20/2026 3:05:45 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.)
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To: Sam Gamgee

I’m sorry but Israel owes nothing to invaders and activists from other countries.“

Well maybe a torpedo.


8 posted on 05/20/2026 3:07:03 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: rdcbn1

The sandwiches the Izzys fed the arrested flotilla activists were not halal, had too much onions and the wrong type of mustard .


Right up there with The Rape Of Nanking, if you ask me.


9 posted on 05/20/2026 3:07:10 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

The poor Dears.

GET THE SMELLING SALTS!!!


10 posted on 05/20/2026 3:09:10 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Here I am; send me!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

You’re welcome to take them into your homes Euroweenies.


11 posted on 05/20/2026 3:10:14 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: MinorityRepublican

A sandwich and a chocolate bar and sent home. How cruel.


12 posted on 05/20/2026 3:20:48 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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I think I saw Phucker Saracen right next to Greta


13 posted on 05/20/2026 3:21:12 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport them all))
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To: MinorityRepublican

Oh well.


14 posted on 05/20/2026 3:21:38 PM PDT by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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At least they weren’t turned into pancakes.


15 posted on 05/20/2026 3:22:07 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: SkyDancer

They didn’t have any Vegan meals.


16 posted on 05/20/2026 3:23:01 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

> spokesperson Anouar El Anouni <

He’s the EU spokesman in this matter.
I guess Martin Bormann was unavailable.

🤔


17 posted on 05/20/2026 3:23:53 PM PDT by Leaning Right
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18 posted on 05/20/2026 3:24:11 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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Yeah, now that’s really cruel to them, they had to eat real food. But then, cows and pigs are vegan.


19 posted on 05/20/2026 3:28:10 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They must mean the Love Flotilla funded by Terrorists


20 posted on 05/20/2026 3:31:12 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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