{"id":1721,"date":"2026-05-20T19:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:24:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:24:03","slug":"uproar-over-video-of-israelis-and-pro-hamas-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/uproar-over-video-of-israelis-and-pro-hamas-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Uproar Over Video of Israelis and Pro-Hamas Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_70\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Uproar across Europe over footage published by Israelis showing Minister Ben Gvir welcoming detainees from the Gaza flotilla.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the video, the activists appear kneeling before the minister, their hands tightly bound behind their backs. At the same time, Ben Gvir waves a large Israeli flag and addresses the detainees, saying: \u201cWelcome to Israel. This is Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among them are Greek-speaking individuals holding Greek passports, who are participating in a general hunger strike and are demanding intervention from the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<h2>Watch the video<\/h2>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"rtl\" lang=\"iw\">\u05db\u05db\u05d4 \u05d0\u05e0\u05d7\u05e0\u05d5 \u05de\u05e7\u05d1\u05dc\u05d9\u05dd \u05d0\u05ea \u05ea\u05d5\u05de\u05db\u05d9 \u05d4\u05d8\u05e8\u05d5\u05e8<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Israel \ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Hf8cAg7fC\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/7Hf8cAg7fC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u05d0\u05d9\u05ea\u05de\u05e8 \u05d1\u05df \u05d2\u05d1\u05d9\u05e8 (@itamarbengvir) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itamarbengvir\/status\/2057046925417824697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">May 20, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversy erupts in Europe after footage shows Israeli minister Ben Gvir greeting detained Gaza flotilla activists\u2014some holding Greek passports\u2014who remain on hunger strike calling for Greek diplomatic action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":1722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,124],"tags":[392,1560,1517,1550,279,1549],"nfg_topic":[134],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-video","tag-europe","tag-flotilla-for-gaza","tag-gaza","tag-hellenic-ministry-of-foreign-affairs","tag-israel","tag-itamar-ben-gevir","nfg_topic-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions\/1739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}