Italy probe into Israel’s treatment of flotilla activists sparks spat

ROME: Italy on Tuesday condemned as “unacceptable” an insult by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, following a decision by prosecutors in Rome to investigate him over the treatment of activists in a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Ben Gvir is being investigated for an alleged “war crime” and “torture” after activists accused Israeli authorities of mistreatment during their detention last month, according to Italian media reports. “The land of the boot has become the land of the flip-flop,” Ben Gvir wrote Monday on X — a derogatory reference to the geographical shape of Italy.

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