Kevin Neish was onboard MV Mavi Marmara stolen by israeli pirates.

Kevin Neish - Vancouver Public Library on Friday June 18 2010
Filmed by: Windwalker Media

The Victoria resident was onboard the MV Mavi Marmara when it was on its way to the Gaza Strip and intercepted by the Israel Defense Forces. Seven activists and two journalists were killed in the confrontation that ensued.

Neish said that he believes that the IDF fired on activists before Israeli soldiers were on board the Mavi Marmara.

"Considering what I saw, it was murder," Neish said. "They killed two journalists right between the eyes. No accident, no mistake, just right between the eyes."

Neish conceded that he was below deck when the shooting took place. But he said that he trusts the accounts of those who were sailing with him.

The ship's skipper claims that IDF soldiers were shooting before they were on-deck, Neish said. And Jamal Elshayyal, a reporter for Al Jazeera who was on board the Mavi Marmara, also maintains that the IDF attacked from helicopters with both rubber bullets and then live ammunition before IDF soldiers were on board.

"There is no doubt in my mind," Neish emphasized, adding that the bodies he saw with his own eyes confirmed for him his companions' stories.

"It was two aid workers who had torso wounds and then had two neat little bullet holes in the sides of their heads," Neish said. "Both of them identical. That is execution."

On June 14, Neish and two other Canadians who were on board the Mavi Marmara, Farooq Burney and Rifat Audeh, drafted an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

It read in part: "We are writing to express our outrage and indignation over our government's despicable silence on what took place in the Mediterranean Sea on May 31, 2010."

The letter asked why, "at the very least", the Canadian government did not demand the release of the three men and attempt to protect Canadian citizens, and notes that the day after the Mavi Marmara was intercepted, Netanyahu actually met with Harper in Ottawa.

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