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France announced on Saturday it had banned Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir from entry for a video mocking bound activists seized by Israeli soldiers on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
“From today, Itamar Ben Gvir is banned from entering French territory” after “his reprehensible actions towards French and European citizens” who were part of the humanitarian flotilla, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on X.
He added that, along with Italy, he was also calling for European Union-level sanctions against the far-right Israeli minister.
Ben Gvir’s actions follow a long list of hatred and violence against Palestinians, Barrot wrote.
