Ben Gvir deletes AI video showing emaciated Palestinian prisoners after backlash

Ben Gvir deletes AI video showing emaciated Palestinian prisoners after backlash MEE staff on Wed, 09/02/2026 - 19:24 Israel’s far-right national security minister removed the clip that prompted comparisons with Nazi concentration camps Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir enters Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem 23 on July 2026 (Ilia Yefimovich/AFP) Off Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has deleted an AI-generated video showing Palestinian prisoners being systematically starved, after it sparked outrage and comparisons to Nazi concentration camps. The video, posted to Ben Gvir’s social media accounts, showed groups of apparently well-fed Palestinian men in numbered prison uniforms travelling along a conveyor belt towards a detention facility surrounded by fencing. Thought bubbles above the prisoners showed images representing food, education, safety and other basic needs. After passing through the facility, the men emerge with unkempt beards, visibly emaciated and distressed, with several crying. “We promised – we delivered,” Ben Gvir wrote alongside the video in Hebrew, apparently referring to his repeated pledges to wo