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Spanish police beat and detain returning Gaza flotilla activists amid clashes at airport
2026-05-25
Hypocrites.
[IsraelTimes] Cops filmed hitting anti-Israel activists and supporters with batons and dragging them on floor. Violence comes days after global outcry, including from Madrid, over Ben Gvir’s taunting of bound, kneeling detainees

Spanish police on Saturday detained four people at Bilbao airport following festivities that broke out after activists from a Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
-bound flotilla returned home, according to officials in Spain.

Police were filmed hitting people with batons and dragging them across the floor, before detaining them.

Video of the incident showed supporters gathered in the arrivals hall to welcome six of the anti-Israel campaigners as they arrived on a flight from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
after having been detained and deported by Israeli forces.

When a relative of one of the activists tried to approach them, a police officer forcefully prevented him from doing so, leading to violent mostly peaceful scuffles, public broadcaster TVE reported.

Images broadcast by the station show police striking people with batons at the airport and pinning others to the ground while being jeered by onlookers.

Four people were arrested for serious disobedience, resisting arrest and assaulting law enforcement officers, the Basque regional police force, the Ertzaintza, says in a statement.

"Following what happened at the airport, the Ertzaintza internal affairs division has launched an investigation to determine whether the officers’ conduct complied with procedures," it added.

Sharing a video of officers beating and detaining the activists, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said: "We demand an explanation from the Spanish government regarding its treatment of the flotilla anarchists."

The incident came after National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir sparked a diplomatic incident on Wednesday over a video he released showing him taunting the activists as they were forced to kneel on the floor with their hands bound. The video triggered an international outcry, with dozens of countries condemning Israel’s treatment of the detained activists.

Spain, which has led Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
in anti-Israel policy and rhetoric over the past several years, issued one of the sharpest condemnations of Ben Gvir’s behavior and called on the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
to suspend its trade agreement with Israel.

The Spanish government did not immediately comment on the incident at the Bilbao airport.

Relations between Spain and Israel have plummeted since Madrid began heavily criticizing Jerusalem over the Gaza war sparked by Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
’s October 7, 2023, terror atrocities in Israel.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has called Israel’s subsequent military campaign against Hamas in Gaza a "genocide" — a charge that Israel firmly denies.

Israel recalled its ambassador after Madrid recognized a Paleostinian state in 2024, while Spain permanently recalled its own ambassador to Israel in March 2026.

Related: 2000 protest in Bilbao over Spanish police's abuse of Gaza flotilla activists, four arrested

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