Gaza "Aid" Flotilla - Not so innocent fleet

Gaza Flotilla - The people on board were not so innocent

(May 31) The Israel Navy intercepted the flotilla after passengers on board ignored Israeli warnings. IDF forces met with severe pre-planned violence from the demonstrators, including use of live fire and light weaponry.

IDF Naval Forces intercepted six ships attempting to break the maritime closure of the Gaza Strip. This happened after numerous warnings from Israel and the Israeli Navy that were issued prior to the event. The Israeli Navy requested the ships to redirect toward Ashdod where they would be able to unload their aid supplies which would then be transferred over to the Gaza Strip after undergoing security inspections.

During the boarding of the Marmara ship, demonstrators onboard attacked the IDF Naval personnel with live fire and light weaponry including knives and clubs. According to reports, two weapons used were grabbed from an IDF soldier. The demonstrators had prepared their weapons in advance for this specific purpose.


As a result of this life-threatening and violent activity, naval forces first employed riot dispersal means, followed by live fire.

So "innocent" fleet

Night-vision footage released by the military showed soldiers dropping from a helicopter one by one and being grabbed by a mob of men wielding sticks on the lead boat, the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara. The soldiers succumbed to the assailants and fell to the deck, where the men continued to beat them and dump one of them from the top deck.

Some soldiers were stripped of their helmets and equipment and thrown from the top deck to the lower deck, and some had even jumped overboard to save themselves, At one point one of the activists seized one of the soldiers’ weapons and opened fire.

IDF Helicopters evacuated the wounded to Israeli hospitals.

Helicopters evacuated the wounded to Israeli hospitals. Five ships had reached port by early evening and some 136 activists had been removed without serious incident, the military said.

Sure Hammas or Turkey was doing the same if it was Israeli fleet, Helping the wounded.