This was not the first such attempt. Last month, 14 Jewish men and boys were arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle sacrificial goats onto the Temple Mount.

Keshek was on “an observer boat which was never intended to go to Gaza,” the statement read, adding that he was “harshly beaten before being removed and isolated from the rest of the participants.”

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