This is The Guardian.

Robert bullets were used against them during the interception.

Tazers were used. They were held in stress positions.

The video is shocking in and of itself,

but it's also what it says about the Israeli political spectrum at the moment.

Why is Israel so afraid of these small boats?

What's interesting is that Bengavir is not concerned

about what the rest of the world would think about this.

The far right Israeli minister Itimar Ben-Gavir has sparked diplomatic outrage

after sharing footage of security forces abusing detained flotilla activists

who were trying to deliver aid into Gaza.

From The Guardians today on Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

Well, joining me from Jerusalem is our chief Middle East correspondent Emma Graham Harrison.

Emma, thank you so much for joining us. We're speaking in the wake of the release of this

video by National Security Minister of Israel, Itamar Benghavir, of the detention of a number of international

activists who were travelling or attempting to travel to Gaza on a massive flotilla that were

taken onto Israeli shores and are very publicly submitted to this terrible treatment. It is a

horrifying watch. What can we see in the video about

the treatment of these detainees? So it opens with an activist who's shouting free, free Palestine,

being sort of forced down by Israeli security forces. Then it's a sort of series of clips.

We see dozens of activists who are kneeling with

their hands bound behind their back with zip ties and their foreheads to the floor in rows.

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