IHH Premeditated Violence - Video Statements of Marmara Crew - 1Jun10

For Detailed transcript (Turkish) and translation (English) see http://www.mfa.gov.il. Meawhile, here are the subtitles:

MAVI MARMARA Chief Officer Gökkıran Gökhan: I was on the bridge after dark, before anything happened, the third captain and I were sent in the direction of the life boats, where there were a lot of people and a lot of noise. The captain told me something was happening down there, there are noises, go see what's going on. There were a lot of people. I told the third captain, you are more senior than I, come with me."
Q: When did that happen?
A: Around eight o'clock, I don't know exactly when, but around eight. I went down the stairs with the third captain. We saw a senior person [from IHH].
Q: Who?
A: That guy.
Q: What guy?
A: That guy. Maybe the third captain knows his name.
Q: The guy from IHH?
A: Yes, from IHH.
Q: Whose name does he know? The name of the guy from IHH who cut the railings?
A: No, the third captain knows him from IHH. We [the third captain and I] went together, we saw a lot of people milling around and we asked what was going on.
Q: Did you see them cutting [the railings]?
A: They [the iron rods] were already cut. It was all over.
Q: Who did the cutting?
A: I didn't see.
Q: Who was holding the disk?
A: The disks were lying in a corner of the stairs and the senior guy was next to them.
Q: The senior guy from IHH?
A: Yes.
Q: Who did the disks belong to?
A: I don't know, they didn't belong to the ship. We don't have equipment like that on board. On deck there were metal poles with clips for cables, when I got there they had been cut.
Q: When did this happen?
A: When it was getting dark. I asked one of them who cut the poles, and he said he didn't know.
Q: Was the man you asked a crew member?
A: No.
Q: Did he belong to IHH?
A: Of course.
Q: You seem to be saying that the people from IHH were in control of the ship. Did the crew need their permission to move around the ship?
A: Definitely, they [i.e. IHH operatives] didn't let people they didn't know move around.
Q: Did they prevent anyone they didn't know from moving freely around the ship?
A: Yes, definitely.
Q: And was that from the first moment they went up on deck?
A: Yes, definitely.
Q: How did the IHH operatives communicate with one another?
A: When they [the IHH operatives] got on board in Istanbul they brought walkie-talkies with them. They were handed out to the IHH operatives and the crew.
Q: Did you [the crew] get them as well?
A: Yes, each one worked on a different frequency.
Q: I don't understand, they didn't let the passengers and crew go from one deck to another?
A: They could go anywhere except to the control center they set up on the bridge.
Q: How many IHH operatives were there on the upper deck.
A: Forty.
Q: The same forty all the time or did they change?
A: More of less the same forty.
Q: You're referring to the group that joined the ship in Istanbul?
A: Yes.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• israel
• ihh
• gaza
• flotilla
• mavi marmara
• humanitarian
• aid

[IDFdude47]

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[Deliiiii]

@kadpw2

what weapons may I ask ?????

[kadpw2]

@fllumoxed2

yeah that is spam and calling israel terrorist isnt. youtube responsers you

are a shame to morality and justice.

may your father rest in peace, israel loves you!!

[kadpw2]

@Deliiiii

israel has the right to investigate anyone who brings weapon to Hamas

which im sure some of the responsers here do.... lol

[Deliiiii]

Yeah right, I wonder what he would talk about when he faces another interview. Israel authorities had no right to question this person, even if they do so his statements at a risk for being bias, because he could say different things if he questioned by Turkish side?? Therefore his statements are not valid until he interviewed by joint committee whose investigating the incident...!!!

[fllumoxed2]

My name is Saad Al-Hariri, Nasrallah killed my father. what can I do about it ?

My name is Saad Al-Hariri, Nasrallah killed my father. what can I do about it ?

My name is Saad Al-Hariri, Nasrallah killed my father. what can I do about it ?

My name is Saad Al-Hariri, Nasrallah killed my father. what can I do about it ?

My name is Saad Al-Hariri, Nasrallah killed my father. what can I do about it ?

(Nothing, Lebanon is in the evil hands of an Iranian terror organization. That's sad.)

[parovoz73]

@Simsmiye

.... they are special forces , shooting too well , ... and you cannot shoot four times to the head it will no head after second shoot . dude , if you mess with army expect to some dead body . The issue was resistance to stop the ship and bring aid by ground , if you asked by army to stop and make your things another way and you do it , believe me nobody will die . It is a many warzones in the world it is a borders , it is a laws maked by people , for people , take it or leave it .

[adribon]

@TheBassofmike I thought the candlelight hoax was done by Arafat in Ramalah. But your other claims are plain false:

Senior IDF officers admitted the Jan. 4. 2009 shelling to which IDF forces in Jabaliya were responding did not originate from the school. The footage released by the IDF of militants firing from inside the school was from two years earlier (!) when the UN abandoned the site and it was taken over by the resistance.

Now there's no space left to discus the other claims ...

[TheBassofmike]

@adribon Israel has a track record for lying!? How about he recent "candlelight" meeting in which hamas staged an entire show claiming they had to power bc israel shut it off, yet in the pictures u can clearly see sunlight leaking from behind blackout curtains, nd other pics streetlights blearing a distance away. Missile fire from the schools has been proven on video, and even by the anti israeli un mediators, what about the claims that the ppl of gaza are starvin or organ harvesting..etc

[adribon]

@TheBassofmike It is the claims of the activists against the claims of the IDF. If you didn't know yet, the IDF track record for speaking the truth isn't exactly splendid. Like when they claimed being bombed by fighters from within a school, when they denied dropping white phosphorus on Gaza, when they claimed Hamas had broken the cease fire in 2008, when they claimed activists on the flotilla to have links to Al Qaeda, etc.

And what do you make of the following evidence:

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