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government has taken no further action. This is unacceptable.”  The Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich (left) speaks at a press conference
responsibility for the occupied West Bank, had not known his comments would be leaked when he boasted of the success of Israel’s policies in the occupied territory. The army, he claimed in undated comments
government’s narratives. “One example is archaeology projects,” said Becker. “Those often have the goal to prove that Palestinians do not exist and that Palestine was empty before the settlers came. In the name
government to end food deprivation. Documented abuse of detainees includes an [assault and rape](https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-02-19/ty-article/.premium/five-israeli-army-reservists-charged-with-abusing-gazan-detainee-at-sde-teiman/00000195-1dd6-df7d-a5dd-bdd7e5d10000) filmed on security cameras and reported to police by Israeli medics. Netanyahu described the alleged perpetrators as “heroic
settlers embarked on brutal ethnic cleansing to establish Israel in 1948, they thought the Palestinian population would be the least of their problems. In fact, Zionist leaders like David Ben-Gurion [believed](https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/old-will-die-and-young-will-forget-did-ben-gurion-say-it)
violence by using these accusations”. “It’s again the same propaganda that is being used against any humanitarian mission,” Sumeyra Akdeniz Ordu, a steering committee member of the Global Sumud Flotilla, told Al Jazeera. “They
governments, including Italy, Canada, Spain, Ireland, Germany and South Korea, summoned Israeli ambassadors or issued formal condemnations after the brutal detention of their citizens. Even US Ambassador Mike Huckabee said Ben-Gvir had “betrayed