Israel deports all Gaza flotilla activists after outcry over their detention

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Treatment, taunting of activists ‘abominable,’ Mark Carney says.

Gaza activists who were detained by Israel, and later pinned to the ground to the taunts of the country’s far-right police minister, have been released from prison and sent home.

The activists, who were intercepted earlier this week in international waters by Israeli naval forces as they were trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, were all deported from Israel on Thursday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said.

Their treatment by police officers under Itamar Ben-Gvir’s direction drew an international outcry and a rebuke from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu….

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