{"id":127648,"date":"2026-05-23T14:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/127648\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T14:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:42:19","slug":"israeli-far-right-minister-itamar-ben-gvir-banned-from-french-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/127648\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir banned from French territory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">France has \u2060decided to ban Israel\u2019s far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from French territory, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Saturday, adding that this reflected \u200cgrowing anger among governments around the world over the treatment of an activist flotilla heading to Gaza.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAs from today, Itamar Ben-Gvir is banned from entering French territory,\u201d Barrot wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cAlong with \u2060my Italian counterpart, I am asking the European Union to \u200calso take sanctions against Itamar Ben-Gvir.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Western governments expressed outrage after Ben-Gvir posted a \u200cvideo of himself taunting activists who had \u2060intended to \u2060bring humanitarian aid to Gaza being pinned to the ground.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Some of the activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was trying to get aid to Gaza, arrive in Rome on Saturday after being released by the Israeli authorities. Photo: EPA\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/a2d0a793-d267-4ebe-acb5-3d02df12b163_9f46a2ea.jpg\" title=\"Some of the activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was trying to get aid to Gaza, arrive in Rome on Saturday after being released by the Israeli authorities. Photo: EPA\"\/>Some of the activists from the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was trying to get aid to Gaza, arrive in Rome on Saturday after being released by the Israeli authorities. Photo: EPA<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Some later alleged \u200cthey had been physically assaulted in detention, allegations that Israel\u2019s prison \u200cservice denied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France has \u2060decided to ban Israel\u2019s far-right police minister Itamar Ben-Gvir from French territory, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[41,1092,382,19844,496,37,2412,8750,1375,51,43093],"class_list":["post-127648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-european-union","tag-france","tag-french","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-israeli","tag-itamar-ben-gvir","tag-jean-noel-barrot","tag-united-states","tag-western-governments"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116624421375619314","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}