{"id":30640,"date":"2026-05-21T17:45:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/30640\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T17:45:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T17:45:01","slug":"how-this-video-reflects-a-culture-of-impunity-amongst-israeli-security-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/30640\/","title":{"rendered":"How this video reflects a &#8216;culture of impunity&#8217; amongst Israeli security forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"How this video reflects a &#039;culture of impunity&#039; amongst Israeli security forces\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZiKGnNcZPRs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHow this video reflects a &#8216;culture of impunity&#8217; amongst Israeli security forces<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIsrael\u2019s far-right national security minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, has provoked a diplomatic crisis by publishing footage of Israeli security forces abusing international activists who were detained as they tried to sail to Gaza with aid.<br \/>\nSubscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>Three activists were taken to hospital as a result of Israeli violence, lawyers representing the group said, and subsequently discharged. Dozens of others have suspected broken ribs, resulting in breathing problems.<br \/>\nBen-Gvir\u2019s video drew a rapid and furious response from countries whose citizens were onboard the boats, including the UK, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>But this video is the latest in a long series of abuses perpetrated in Israeli jails and detention centres, widely documented by human rights groups and activists, says Emma Graham-Harrison, the Guardian\u2019s chief Middle East correspondent.<\/p>\n<p>Watch our video as she explains how this footage illustrates what the human rights activist Sari Bashi calls a \u2018broader culture of impunity\u2019 and tap the link for Emma\u2019s full story and conversation with Lucy Hough in the latest episode of Today in Focus  \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DSCzzVOQPkg<\/p>\n<p>#israel #itamarbengvir #globalsumudflotilla #gaza<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How this video reflects a &#8216;culture of impunity&#8217; amongst Israeli security forces Israel\u2019s far-right national security minister, Itamar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[95,4655,31734,5238,1773,1050,31745,1859,31735,31736,31737,6651,1677,1638,1771,3073,272,6253,31738,22306,240,261,39,715,1762,31739,31740,31744,31741,1043,31,733,31742,31743,1761,31746],"class_list":["post-30640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guardian-news","tag-95","tag-abuse","tag-bejamin-netanyahu","tag-ben-gvir","tag-bibi","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-abuse","tag-gaza-aid","tag-gaza-aid-boats","tag-gaza-aid-flotilla","tag-gaza-aid-ships","tag-gaza-flotilla","tag-gaza-genocide","tag-gaza-news","tag-gaza-war","tag-gazza","tag-gdnpfpnewsworld","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-global-sumud","tag-global-sumud-flotilla","tag-guardian","tag-guardian-news","tag-israel","tag-israel-news","tag-israeli","tag-israeli-prisoners","tag-itamar-ben-gvir-abuse","tag-itamar-ben-gvir-flotilla-video","tag-itamar-ben-gvir-video","tag-itamar-ben-gvir","tag-news","tag-palestine","tag-prisoner-abuse","tag-security-minister","tag-war-crimes","tag-war-criminal"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}