{"id":316770,"date":"2026-06-01T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=316770"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:32:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:32:04","slug":"rape-assault-abuse-reflect-israeli-gov-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/06\/rape-assault-abuse-reflect-israeli-gov-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Rape, Assault & Abuse Reflect Israeli Gov Values"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Psalm 23 – Sacred at evil’s service…<\/p><\/div>\n

Ann Wright reports on Gaza Flotilla survivors\u2019 accounts of horrifying abuse by Israeli forces \u2014 of the same sort suffered by Palestinians without any international official protest. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

26 May 2026\u00a0<\/em>– It has been only four days since members of the Gaza flotilla arrived in Istanbul and told of the rape, assaults and abuse they endured from the Israeli military on their sailboats, from security personnel on the prison ship, from civilian police at the Ashdod processing center and from guards at the notoriously abusive Ktzi\u2019ot prison<\/a> where Palestinian prisoners have given testimony about torture, abuse and humiliation.<\/p>\n

Those few days feel like weeks as stories<\/a> were told by each of the 428 unarmed civilians from 45 countries who were on 50 small sailboats, kidnapped in international waters and taken against their will to a place they did not want to go \u2014 Israel \u2014 and then subjected to criminal abuse from personnel from a multitude of Israeli security institutions.<\/p>\n

This criminal abuse was orchestrated and ordered at the highest level of the Israeli government as evidenced by the statement and actions of Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir.<\/p>\n

Gvir himself posted footage<\/a> on a social media platform showing himself gloating<\/a> as activists from the flotilla were forced to kneel on the floor, blindfolded, roughed up with their hands bound tightly in zipties at the port of Ashdod.<\/p>\n