Posted on 05/31/2010 3:10:11 AM PDT by markomalley
Jerusalem, 31 May (AKI) - At least 10 people were killed early Monday when Israeli forces stormed a boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists attempting to break a blockage of Gaza, Israeli military officials said. Four soldiers were injured when they boarded six ships at 4:30 am, the military added.
"We did not attack any boat, we merely fulfil the Israeli government's decision to prevent anyone from going into the Gaza strip without coordinating with Israel," a statement from the Israeli military said. "The flotilla is a provocation made to de-legitimize Israel. Had they really wanted to deliver the cargo into Gaza they could have done so via Israel as it is done on a daily basis." The convoy of boats approached Gaza in defiance of an Israeli blockade and had been shadowed by three Israeli warships. Free Gaza had reported Sunday that they had been contacted by the Israeli navy. Israel says it was willing to let the boat deliver aid supplies after the goods were vetted for security reasons. The boats left European ports in a consolidated protest organized by two pro-Palestinian groups to deliver tons of food and other aid to Gaza to break a blockade imposed by Israel in 2007. Turkish media reported two dead and 50 injured in the incident as the flotilla approached the Gaza coast. Free Gaza co-founder Greta Berlin told Al Jazeera English that its lawyers in Israel informed her that 10 people have been killed and many others injured. She told the BBC that there was no provocation that merited a violent response. The flotilla was carrying around 800 pro-Palestinian activists from various countries, as well as 10,000 tons of construction material, medical equipment and school supplies, according to a news report. It is by far the largest fleet of aid to try to reach Gaza since Israel and Egypt began restricting the flow of goods into and out of the territory in 2007 after Hamas seized control. Most of the violence occurred on a Turkish ship that was delivering aid with the tacit support of Turkey's government, the BBC reported. |
“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”
David Ben-Gurion quote
“This is NOT Israel’s fault!!”
Indeed!!! But try explaining that to a Commie....
Were these pre-dead bodies?
Are these for another show funeral with a living corpse?
Even if there is no dead, the arab street will be told there are dead and the illiterates will believe it.
Can you imagine finding that bobbing up and down in the Mediterranean Sea? They've have to empty the whole pool (sea), and scrub everything clean before they could let anyone could get back in the water.
Or defending themselves from terrorist attack by intercepting weapons and munition shipments to Gaza.
I also recommend this video of the violent attack on Israeli soldiers .
Since every last god damn one of them.
I’m so sick of these sons of bitches.
These anti semite, islamo NAZI pieces of shit are posing these greated threat to humanity in history.
These leftists and extremists and going to get us all killed....they must be stopped...America must get rid of this awful failure of a President....the world depends on it!
The AP is calling it a “botched raid” that has “provoked international outrage”.
The Israelis will never win in the court of leftist media opinion.
Stop calling it Turkey. It is the Islamist Regime of Turkey now and has been for years. Turkey colluded with Brazil to defend Iran’s nuclear program and now is trying to attack Israel.
This is the real damage right here.
Despite their peaceful protestations, and their line that they aren't "hardcore", the Islamists in Turkey are trying to turn Turkey, a NATO member, into a "frontline state". It would appear that their lie-war campaign is gradually succeeding.
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