‘Miraculous recovery’ – Israel mocks flotilla activists’ faked injuries

Photos posted online show German activist Nesrin Zeaiter appearing injured and later fully recovered.

By World Israel News Staff

Israel’s Foreign Ministry took to social media to criticize activists detained aboard the Gaza-bound flotilla, accusing participants of exaggerating or fabricating claims of abuse by Israeli forces after images emerged in which they appeared injured after their deportations but looked healthy a short time later.

On its official X account, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel posted three photographs of German activist Nesrin Zeaiter.

The first image, taken shortly after Zeaiter’s detention, showed her smiling while standing beside an Israeli soldier and appearing unharmed.

A second photograph, taken upon her arrival in Turkey, where she and the other flotilla activists were deported, showed Zeaiter lying on a stretcher while wearing a neck brace and appearing unwell.

The ministry captioned the image, “Posing ‘injured’ for the cameras.”

In the third image, captioned “Healthy again in Germany,” Zeaiter is seen smiling and walking confidently through an airport in her home country without the neck brace, just days after the earlier images suggested she had suffered serious injuries while in Israeli custody.

“The miraculous ‘recovery’ of the flotilla participants. All in no time,” the ministry wrote in an additional caption accompanying the post.

In an earlier social media post published last Saturday, the ministry wrote: “It’s a miracle! Thank God, the flotilla anarchist made a full recovery in no time.”

The Global Sumud Flotilla responded with a statement alleging that Israeli forces inflicted “a concussion and over 40 bruises” on Zeaiter, though the organization did not provide evidence supporting the claim.

The group insisted that the neck brace was not intended for media manipulation, but was instead medically necessary.

Wearing a neck brace is “standard precautionary protocol for suspected cervical injury,” the organization said.

Zeaiter alleged that she had been stabbed and beaten by Israeli forces and that attack dogs had been used against her during detention.

The Israel Prison Service denied the allegations and stated that all detained activists received medical treatment “in accordance to law, with full regard for their basic rights.”