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Ben-Gvir posts Palestinians on conveyor belts to detention camps. The world is silent | Arwa Mahdawi

You'll have heard his name before: he made international news when he filmed himself taunting bound activists who had been detained trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. You might not be familiar with many of his recent shocking comments, because they haven't been widely covered by much of the US media.

Ben-Gvir posts Palestinians on conveyor belts to detention camps. The world is silent | Arwa Mahdawi
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You'll have heard his name before: he made international news when he filmed himself taunting bound activists who had been detained trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

You might not be familiar with many of his recent shocking comments, because they haven't been widely covered by much of the US media.

Let's start with an video that Ben-Gvir posted on Twitter/X on Sunday and then deleted.

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You'll have heard his name before: he made international news when he filmed himself taunting bound activists who had been detained trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. You might not be familiar with many of his recent shocking comments, because they haven't been widely covered by much of the US media. Let's start with an video that Ben-Gvir posted on Twitter/X on Sunday and then deleted.

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  • It shows portly Palestinian prisoners being loaded on to a conveyor belt and going into a detention camp, then emerging emaciated.
  • The caption is "we promised – we delivered!" which seems to be a reference to the national security minister's promise to worsen conditions for Palestinian prisoners.
  • Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has likened the prisons where Palestinians are kept to " torture camps ".

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