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Global outcry after Israeli minister taunts detained Gaza flotilla activists

Israeli naval forces intercepted the "Global Sumud Flotilla" this week, detaining hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists attempting to break the maritime blockade of Gaza.

The mission turned into a major diplomatic crisis on Wednesday after National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir posted a video of himself taunting the bound and kneeling detainees while playing the Israeli national anthem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly rebuked the far-right minister, fearing the footage undermines Israel’s legal justification for the seizure in international waters. Multiple nations, including France, Italy, and Canada, have summoned Israeli ambassadors to protest the "degrading treatment" of their citizens held at Ashdod port.

Activists have now launched a hunger strike as legal battles over the seized vessels and the status of international detainees begin in Israeli courts.

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Netanyahu rebukes Israeli minister after video shows degrading treatment of Gaza flotilla activists

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Kingston man missing after Gaza-bound aid flotilla seized

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Several countries summon Israel envoy over Ben-Gvir's flotilla activists video

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 @BDP2NKL from Pennsylvania  commented…3wks3W

I think it would be very unprofessional to publicly taunt them

  @alive-individualNo Labels from Kentucky  commented…3wks3W

Sweet crap, please tell me this was a made up scenario. Then again, I wouldn't put it past them. That's absolutely disgusting

 @BDP42MP from Wisconsin  commented…3wks3W

it could end up maybe affecting us

 @BDP6CDZ from Texas  commented…3wks3W

Isreal must stop foreign aid from reaching the Gaza strip. It should be a violation of humanitarian law.

 @BDP75NK  from California  commented…3wks3W

It’s illegal and Israel is despicable. Israel needs to be held accountable for their crimes.

 @BDPG8MV from Illinois  commented…3wks3W

I feel this is important because it was stopping people from crossing over and giving Gaza some aid

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Biden bans new offshore oil drilling along most of US coastline

President Joe Biden announced a ban on new offshore oil and gas drilling along most of the US coastline on Monday in a move designed to bolster his environmental and climate legacy as he prepares to leave office.The order will protect 625mn acres of ocean on the US east coast, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific coasts of Washington, Oregon and California, as well as portions of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska, the White House said on Monday.“My decision reflects what the coastal communities, business and beachgoers have known for a long time: that drilling off these coasts could cause irreversible damage to places we hold dear and is unnecessary to meet our nation’s energy needs,” Biden said.The executive action will not prevent oil and gas companies obtaining leases in the central and western parts of the Gulf of Mexico, areas that produce almost 15 per cent of the nation’s oil supplies. Nevertheless, the move is expected to complicate the policy agenda of incoming president Donald Trump, who has vowed to “drill, baby, drill” and boost US oil production, even though it is already at a record level.The Trump transition team said it was a disgraceful decision designed to exact “political revenge on the American people” and the incoming president said he would immediately “unban” Biden’s prohibition on new offshore drilling.“I have the right to unban it immediately . . . we can’t let that happen to our country. It’s our greatest, it’s really our greatest economic asset,” Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt in an interview on Monday.Biden’s action will probably be challenged by the oil industry in court and face pushback from Republicans in Congress. But overturning the order could prove challenging and may require an act of Congress, according to legal experts.Biden is using his authority under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, to protect the areas from drilling — the same mechanism which former president Barack Obama used previously to ban offshore drilling in some Arctic and Atlantic waters in 2016.In 2019, a federal judge ruled that an executive order by former president Donald Trump that lifted an Obama-era ban on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic Ocean was unlawful.

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