Turkey welcomes 422 Gaza flotilla activists after Israel detention

About 420 activists departed Israel on planes bound for Turkey, where they landed Thursday evening in Istanbul.

Ben-Gvir and at least one other minister in Netanyahu’s government, transport chief Miri Regev, posted campaign-style videos of themselves visiting the port and lambasting the protesters, attention-grabbing antics ahead of potential early elections in Israel.

Adalah accused Israel of torturing, humiliating and unlawfully detaining peaceful activists, as outrage grew over a video showing Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir mocking the handcuffed detainees.

Ben-Gvir released videos Wednesday showing him walking among some of the approximately 430 detainees.