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Emma Graham-Harrison

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The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

So it opens with an activist who's shouting free, free Palestine, being sort of forced down by Israeli security forces.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

Then it's a sort of series of clips.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

We see dozens of activists who are kneeling with their hands bound behind their back with zip ties and their foreheads to the floor in rows.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

There's so many of them that they're laid out in rows.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

Ben-Gavir is walking past them.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

He's smiling.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

At one point, he waves the Israeli flag and says something like, we are the owners, sort of referring to the land.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

And he sort of mocks them.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

He says, you came here as heroes.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

Look at you now as they're there being humiliated on camera.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

So it continues in that vein.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

And then at the end, there's footage of Ben-Gavir shouting very sort of into the face of another man who has his hands bound.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

He's not bent over.

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The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

He's sitting up.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

But he's

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

shouts at him, Am Yisrael Chai, which means the people of Israel live.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

So, you know, you rightly said he's sort of doing it to appeal to his own base.

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The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

And I think that's one of the things that's shocking.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

The video is shocking in and of itself, but it's also what it says about the Israeli political spectrum at the moment that, you know, a prominent politician is releasing something that's provoked pretty universal outrage among countries who number some of Israel's very staunch allies.

Today in Focus
The far-right Israeli minister taunting detained Gaza activists โ€“ The Latest

In Europe, we had Germany.