Israel has pushed back against claims from Gaza flotilla organisers, accusing some protesters of faking injuries after they alleged they were beaten, abused and sexually assaulted while in custody. The Mailhas the story.
The official X account of the Israeli Foreign Ministry posted a tweet mocking the “miraculous ‘recovery’ of the flotilla participants”, implying activists staged their injuries in front of the cameras.
It comes after Israeli forces arrested 430 people on board 50 ships in international waters last Tuesday to halt a flotilla of volunteers trying to bring aid supplies to the Gaza Strip.
Several activists were hospitalised with injuries and at least 15 people alleged they were subjected to sexual assault in Israeli custody.
Israel’s prison service has denied the allegations. …
In one tweet, the Israeli Foreign Ministry posted three photographs of German activist Nesrin Zeaiter, accusing her of staging her injuries to spark media attention.
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) May 25, 2026
One photograph shows her “standing healthy in Israel”, the other her lying down with a neck brace and the third shows her “healthy again in Germany”.
“The miracle of the flotilla participants,” the collage is titled.
In another mocking post, the Israeli Foreign Ministry shared the same photograph of Zeaiter in a stretcher, next to a second photograph of her carrying flowers and smiling at Hannover Airport, Langenhagen.
“It’s a miracle! Thank God, the flotilla anarchist made a full recovery in no time!” the ministry wrote.
It’s a miracle! Thank God, the flotilla anarchist made a full recovery in no time 🤣 pic.twitter.com/bpvfhkdH4a
— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) May 23, 2026
The posts incited a rebuttal from the Global Sumud Flotilla, which said Zeaiter had “experienced a concussion and over 40 bruises” in custody, and that a neck brace is “standard precautionary protocol for suspected cervical injury”.
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NeilofWatford
3 months ago
Classic Pallywood.
It’s what Hamas apologists do.
Good article.
Hester
3 months ago
Just let them go into Palestine and don’t let them out again.
Mogwai
4 months ago
Why are they taking aid there in the first place? They don’t need anything. Blatant PR stunt. All I see continuously coming out of Gaza are videos of them eating and partying. Well, the men are partying. I don’t know what the women do for fun… Hillel here has a point. International outrage for Israel but where was the condemnation for Spain? The Spanish police did batter seven shades out of them, though. All Israel did was strip them, handcuff them then blast the national anthem at them. So more humiliation than violence, in comparison. Israel are damned if they do and damned if they don’t, as per always;
”On the left side is an Israeli MK who filmed a really dumb video of the flotilla “activists” (terrorists) detained in Israel and him taunting them. By the way, every single Israeli politician including the prime minister himself condemned that MK (So did I). On the right side, you have Spanish police officers beating those same “activists” (terrorists) half to death. Which one sparked global outrage and mass condemnations, the dumb Israeli MK or the violent Spanish police? No need to respond. We all know the answer.
If you haven’t already seen the footage of them getting a serious thrashing, here it is. The one I saw from the start shows the police asking the activists to move along but they didn’t budge, so the police started hitting them. Not a lot of outrage over this, though;
”I DEMAND an apology from EVERY government that criticized Ben Gvir… because the scenes out of Spain are hilarious. After the ridiculous outrage and world meltdowns following the video of Ben Gvir and the flotilla activists, as well as the false accusations that Israeli police beat the activists, those same activists (at least the Spanish ones) returned home and immediately started to riot at the airport. The Spanish Basque police were having absolutely none of it and responded by giving those activists a good fucking beating. And the crowds of leftists and pro Palestine loonies waiting to greet them at the airport completely lost their shit. They were like an entire crowd of Chunky Cenk Uygurs.”
It’s all hilarious… Like watching the Gazawood videos.
Gezza England
4 months ago
Sink their ships and toss a coin to see if they are evacuated first or not.
GlassHalfFull
4 months ago
Whether one of the 428 unarmed civilians from 45 countries who were on 50 small sailboats, kidnapped in international waters and taken against their will to a place they did not want to go — Israel — and then subjected to criminal abuse from personnel from a multitude of Israeli security institutions is embellishing her ordeal doesn’t alter the disgraceful Israeli behaviour. “This criminal abuse was orchestrated and ordered at the highest level of the Israeli government as evidenced by the statement and actions of Minister of National Security Ben Gvir. France has banned Ben-Gvir from entering French territory because of his “unspeakable behavior of taunting Gaza flotilla activists who had been arrested and abused by Israeli police forces.” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned the treatment seen in the footage in a post on X, calling the images “unacceptable” and saying it was “inadmissible” that demonstrators, including Italian citizens, were subjected to treatment that “violates human dignity.” President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea on May 20 called Israel’s actions “way out of line.” Spain and Ireland also issued statements against Ben Gvir’s “monstrous” and “appalling” behaviour. Even U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration issued a rare criticism of an… Read more »
With replies like below it’s sadly so easy to see why the Greater Israel Project gets little criticism from a captured West – more so here because most have easily seen through Covid, Vaccinations, Wokeism, WHO, Net Zero, CBDC etc..
Just shows the power of long term propaganda.
There is a debate to be had and outrage at Israeli behaviour on the West Bank and whether the response to the Hamas murders and rapes on 7th October was an appropriate response given how Hamas deliberately put Palestinian children in the front line and in danger of being killed and maimed. However, we see through the deliberate historic revisionism by the pro-Palestinians whose continual attempts to destroy Israel since 1948 have ended in failure. It is hard to discuss a rational outcome with people who want to see you dead.
…because the world will complain of Israeli lack of care? And in the meantime new flotillas carrying components for rockets and guns will deliver ‘aid’.
Oh please 🙏 I’ll get the popcorn, poor old doom goblin and her gay mates getting thrown from rooftops 🤣 they have no idea how Isreali is protecting them!
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Classic Pallywood.
It’s what Hamas apologists do.
Good article.
Just let them go into Palestine and don’t let them out again.
Why are they taking aid there in the first place? They don’t need anything. Blatant PR stunt. All I see continuously coming out of Gaza are videos of them eating and partying. Well, the men are partying. I don’t know what the women do for fun…
Hillel here has a point. International outrage for Israel but where was the condemnation for Spain? The Spanish police did batter seven shades out of them, though. All Israel did was strip them, handcuff them then blast the national anthem at them. So more humiliation than violence, in comparison. Israel are damned if they do and damned if they don’t, as per always;
”On the left side is an Israeli MK who filmed a really dumb video of the flotilla “activists” (terrorists) detained in Israel and him taunting them. By the way, every single Israeli politician including the prime minister himself condemned that MK (So did I). On the right side, you have Spanish police officers beating those same “activists” (terrorists) half to death. Which one sparked global outrage and mass condemnations, the dumb Israeli MK or the violent Spanish police? No need to respond. We all know the answer.
Now, without using… Read more »
If you haven’t already seen the footage of them getting a serious thrashing, here it is. The one I saw from the start shows the police asking the activists to move along but they didn’t budge, so the police started hitting them. Not a lot of outrage over this, though;
”I DEMAND an apology from EVERY government that criticized Ben Gvir… because the scenes out of Spain are hilarious. After the ridiculous outrage and world meltdowns following the video of Ben Gvir and the flotilla activists, as well as the false accusations that Israeli police beat the activists, those same activists (at least the Spanish ones) returned home and immediately started to riot at the airport. The Spanish Basque police were having absolutely none of it and responded by giving those activists a good fucking beating. And the crowds of leftists and pro Palestine loonies waiting to greet them at the airport completely lost their shit. They were like an entire crowd of Chunky Cenk Uygurs.”
https://x.com/MorEdge_Insight/status/2058228536385618139
It’s all hilarious… Like watching the Gazawood videos.
Sink their ships and toss a coin to see if they are evacuated first or not.
Whether one of the 428 unarmed civilians from 45 countries who were on 50 small sailboats, kidnapped in international waters and taken against their will to a place they did not want to go — Israel — and then subjected to criminal abuse from personnel from a multitude of Israeli security institutions is embellishing her ordeal doesn’t alter the disgraceful Israeli behaviour.
“This criminal abuse was orchestrated and ordered at the highest level of the Israeli government as evidenced by the statement and actions of Minister of National Security Ben Gvir.
France has banned Ben-Gvir from entering French territory because of his “unspeakable behavior of taunting Gaza flotilla activists who had been arrested and abused by Israeli police forces.”
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned the treatment seen in the footage in a post on X, calling the images “unacceptable” and saying it was “inadmissible” that demonstrators, including Italian citizens, were subjected to treatment that “violates human dignity.”
President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea on May 20 called Israel’s actions “way out of line.”
Spain and Ireland also issued statements against Ben Gvir’s “monstrous” and “appalling” behaviour.
Even U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration issued a rare criticism of an… Read more »
Zzzzzzzz!
Hamas catspaw.
How does it feel to be on the side of the child torturers and rapists?
My contempt for your attitude to this is infinite.
I’m lost here, who are the tortures and rapists exactly?
With replies like below it’s sadly so easy to see why the Greater Israel Project gets little criticism from a captured West – more so here because most have easily seen through Covid, Vaccinations, Wokeism, WHO, Net Zero, CBDC etc..
Just shows the power of long term propaganda.
There is a debate to be had and outrage at Israeli behaviour on the West Bank and whether the response to the Hamas murders and rapes on 7th October was an appropriate response given how Hamas deliberately put Palestinian children in the front line and in danger of being killed and maimed. However, we see through the deliberate historic revisionism by the pro-Palestinians whose continual attempts to destroy Israel since 1948 have ended in failure. It is hard to discuss a rational outcome with people who want to see you dead.
Allegedly.
One of these days, someone surely is going to say: “Boss, why don’t we just let them through and let them deal with the consequences?”
…because the world will complain of Israeli lack of care? And in the meantime new flotillas carrying components for rockets and guns will deliver ‘aid’.
Oh please 🙏 I’ll get the popcorn, poor old doom goblin and her gay mates getting thrown from rooftops 🤣 they have no idea how Isreali is protecting them!