Israeli Soldiers Taken Hostage
written by Israel Today
Turkey's top daily newspaper, Hurriyet on Sunday published a series of photographs that proved Israeli commandos who boarded the blockade-busting Mavi Marmara aid ship were brutally attacked and even taken hostage.
The photos contradict claims by Turkey, the Free Gaza Movement that organized the ships and an Israeli Arab Knesset member that sailed with the ships that Israeli troops opened fire indiscriminately and without provocation, and that the Marmara's passengers were unarmed and peaceful.
The photos contradict claims by Turkey, the Free Gaza Movement that organized the ships and an Israeli Arab Knesset member that sailed with the ships that Israeli troops opened fire indiscriminately and without provocation, and that the Marmara's passengers were unarmed and peaceful.
Israeli military officials have said that a second wave of commandos only requested permission to use live fire after learning their comrades had been taken hostage and were in a serious life-threatening situation.
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On the 08th of June 2010, Gloria Moore said:
I saw the video footage and the violent response of the people in the flotilla was immediate. You could see some of the soldiers still going down the ropes and the "peace activists" were already heavily at work attacking them with the rod bars. What would they think they would need all this weapons if they were honestly "peace activists". It is significant that they had slings and swords like David and the isrealites used in biblical times. What where they meaning through this? Was it a tit for tat from "peaceful protesters"?