{"id":160117,"date":"2026-06-05T13:28:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/160117-france-opens-war-crime-probe-over-israel-treatment-of-flotilla-activists.html"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:28:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:28:02","slug":"france-opens-war-crime-probe-over-israel-treatment-of-flotilla-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/160117-france-opens-war-crime-probe-over-israel-treatment-of-flotilla-activists.html","title":{"rendered":"France opens 'war crime' probe over Israel treatment of flotilla activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n             France has opened an investigation into an alleged \"war crime\" and \"torture\" over Israel's treatment of French activists who took part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a prosecutor's office said Friday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            The probe was opened at the government's request, the national counterterrorism prosecutor's office (PNAT) said, after activists accused Israeli authorities of mistreatment during their detention last month.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Israel detained more than 430 activists from countries around the world after intercepting them in international waters on May 18 as they made the latest in a string of attempts to break the blockade of the Palestinian territory.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir sparked widespread condemnation after he posted a video mocking the flotilla activists while they were bound.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            France banned Ben Gvir from entry over the incident.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Several French activists described what they said was a violent and humiliating ordeal when eight of them returned to France on May 22.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Two of the more than 30 French people who were on board the flotilla were still in hospital in Turkey, they told reporters.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            One returnee described a soldier groping and slapping her in a dark container, and being terrified that she would be raped.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Another recounted detained activists being put in what she called a \"stress position\", on their knees with their foreheads on the ground for several hours, while the Israeli national anthem played on repeat.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Asked by AFP to respond to the claims of physical and psychological violence, sexual harassment, assault and rape, the Israeli prison service said the accusations were \"entirely without factual basis\".\n<\/p>\n<p>\n            Francesca Albanese, an outspoken UN expert on the Palestinian territories, has said the treatment of the flotilla activists \"is a luxury compared to what is inflicted on Palestinians in Israeli prisons\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has opened an investigation into an alleged \"war crime\" and \"torture\" over Israel's treatment of French activists who took part in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a prosecutor's office said Friday. 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