World Leaders Condemn Israeli Minister

Footage of Ben Gvir confronting a detainee - image taken from instagram/otzma_yehudit

Ben Gvir can be seen striding through people detained from the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Irish activists are facing into another day of detention by Israel, while world leaders continue to condemn a video showing their treatment.

The clip, posed by Isareli senior minister Ben Gvir shows him taunting people at Israel's Ashdod port, with an Irish citizen forcibly pushed to the ground by soldiers.

14 Irish people, including Westmeath woman Louise McCormack, have been detained after the flotilla they were travelling on to Gaza was intercepted.

Taoiseach Micheal Martin is describing the scenes as 'appalling' and has written to the European Council on the situation.

Israel Correspondent with the Irish Times, Mark Weiss says other Israeli figures are pushing back on what happened:

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