IDF attacks humanitarian convoy

In the early hours of May 31, 2010, Israeli soldiers attacked a flotilla carrying civilians attempting to deliver aid to Gaza, including a nobel prize laureate and a holocaust survivor. An Al-Jazeera reporter on the boat captured this video of the attack, in which the IDF starts firing unprovoked in international waters. Israeli PR officials are claiming the civilians had weapons on the boats and attacked first. Spread the truth on Facebook, Youtube, and wherever else you can. Help make #flotilla a trending topic on Twitter. Don't let crimes like this slide anymore!

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UPDATE: At least 19 people killed and dozens injured. Spain, Sweden, and Turkey have recalled their Israeli ambassadors, calling Israel's actions "unacceptable." Germany and Denmark have released official statements condemning Israel's actions. Iranian president has called the attack "inhuman." Turkish authorities report they searched the flotilla boats and there were no weapons on board. The French foreign ministry has called for an investigation. Both the EU and the Arab League have called emergency meetings. The UN received the news with "shock" and calls Israel's blockade of Gaza "unacceptable." Follow the story here, with The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2010/may/31/israel-troops-gaza-ships?CMP...

Or Al-Jazeera's live coverage on LiveStation and blog:
http://www.livestation.com/channels/3-al_jazeera_english_english
http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2010/05/31/aftermath-israels-attack-ga...

"The majority of the people on board the ships were Turkish. The passengers also include people from Algeria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Kuwait, Malaysia, Norway, Palestine, Serbia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. At least three of the German passengers were members of parliament." These weren't extremists, these were civilians! Spread the truth!

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• IDF
• humanitarian
• convoy
• attack
• israel
• turkey
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• warcrime

[mirawayne]

humanitarian aide??? Turkish still dreaming of Turkish Ottoman in the world? there was nothing on this ship with aide, only a bunch of Islamic fighters who aim is to destroy Israel and bring Islam to the world,it's a piety it's only 10 parasites that died.

[angelknight7777]

You gotta love how they are talking about live fire when the Israeli were firing paintballs. How do I know that? A journalist from the Czech Republic was there and he reported that the Israelis were firing small paintballs at them. They did not use live fire until attacked. I would too. THE WORLD IS NOT ONLY BLIND BUT ALSO NAIVE.

[NETAXZX]

Arabic is the language of terrorists

[AtheistSweden]

Humanitarian aid my **s!!!!! Those killed were turkish islamists, meanwhile in Turkey, Kurds are being murdered (over a hundred civilians just rescently after the Gaza incident, including children, google and you will see), Erdogan is also besides killing Kurds denying the genocide of Armenians, Kurds, Assyrians, Greeks etc. and Erdogan is also saying that "muslims can´t commit genocide" when he was defending Sudanese massmurderer Omar Bashir.

[baronmaclay]

@deathtrapdeath What a stupid comment. Denying a fellow human being their humanity is just plain wrong - the Nazis tried that. It doesn't matter what they've done. I don't like the actions of the Israeli gov't or the butchers of the IDF, but they are human. Get a grip.

[deathtrapdeath]

When are Arabs going to join the family of man?

[cantdothatenymore]

POLLYWOOD!! haha in my opinion all the terrorists should have been killed or arrested in this boat the IHH boat! not the humanitarian boat pffff, great show turkey we are waiting for the next one hahaha ARDUGAN is going to fall into IRANS arms very soon and then falls together! and then make another pollywood show.

navi marmara with cevilianz hahaha great jock you can obviously see they are terrorists with inteligence info and with there act. next one should be sinked down.

[Brulluhman]

Why didn't they went to Ashdod? 

[TinyArts]

and this is international waters ..... well done Israel "clap" "clap". This is actually piracy !