Two British activists have said they were admitted to hospital after being beaten by Israeli forces who intercepted their Gaza aid flotilla last week .

Alice Chapman and Zak Khan were among 180 members of the Global Sumud flotilla detained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in international waters near Crete late on Wednesday.

Khan, a Green party council election candidate, said he had been shot in the leg with a rubber bullet fired by an Israeli solder. “I was beaten by four people, repeatedly punched, kicked, spat on and accused of being a terrorist,” he said.

Chapman told the Guardian an Israeli solder had punched her.

Two members of the flotilla, Saif Abukeshek, a Spanish-Swedish national of Palestinian origin, and Thiago Ávila, a Brazilian national, are still being held in Israel. They have been brought before a court in the city of Ashkelon, but neither has been charged.

Thiago Ávila appears in court in Ashkelon on 3 May.…