Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani announced on X that «on behalf of the Italian Government , I have just formally asked High Representative Kaja Kallas to include in the next discussion of EU Foreign Ministers the adoption of sanctions against Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir for the unacceptable acts carried out against the Flotilla , abducting activists in international waters and subjecting them to harassment and humiliation, violating the most basic human rights».
Meanwhile, international disapproval and condemnation of the Tel Aviv minister's behavior are mounting over videos depicting the ridicule and humiliation suffered by activists stopped by Israel on the route to Gaza.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez also announced that he will ask the EU to sanction Israeli Minister Itamar Ben Gvir following the video in which he mocks the members of the flotilla, including 45 Spaniards. Following Italy and Spain, France summoned the Israeli ambassador to protest, a decision echoed by other European countries. Great Britain expressed its "horrified," and official protests also came from the United States: "The flotilla was a stupid prank, but Ben Gvir betrayed the dignity of his nation. Despicable acts ," US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee wrote on X.
And the Foreign Policy Forum , made up of former Israeli ambassadors and senior diplomats, warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that retaining Itamar Ben-Gvir as national security minister constitutes a “moral stain both on the government and on the entire nation.”
(Unioneonline)