Israel Hijacks Aid cargo, executes hostages - Pak journo, Talat Hussain taken hostage

[khanz]

I'm shocked to see how many indians are defending this you guys supporting israel are pathetic and you should be ashamed of yourselves israel attacked an AID ship in INTERNATIONAL waters killing dozens of innocent people they were mostly humanitarian workers !
what kind of country INTENTIONALLY attacks a RELIEF mission !!! you make me sick

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

Here how it went down from the begining. For all who blindly accuse anyone from wrong doings, please watch the entire videos and thn take your stand.

1. Flotillas tried to overrun the Israeli naval blockade
2. Israel wanted to search the ships
YouTube - Israeli Navy Addresses a Ship in the Flotilla and Offers it to Dock in the Ashdod Port
but activists refused to stop the ships.

From Al jazeera's corrspondent on board one of the vessels:

Our correspondent said that a white surrender flag was raised from the ship and there was no live fire coming from the passengers.

Before losing communication with our correspondent, a voice in Hebrew was clearly heard saying: "Everyone shut up".

Israeli intervention

Earlier, the Israeli navy had contacted the captain of the Mavi Marmara, asking him to identify himself and say where the ship was headed.

Shortly after, two Israeli naval vessels had flanked the flotilla on either side, but at a distance.

Organisers of the flotilla carrying 10,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid then diverted their ships and slowed down to avoid a confrontation during the night.

They also issued all passengers life jackets and asked them to remain below deck.

Al Jazeera’s Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Jerusalem, said the Israeli action was surprising.

So Israeli propaganda about the ships 'ramming the IDF' or other nonsense is just that , lies and propaganda.

3. Israel heli-dropped the marines and the activists started to attack the marines
YouTube - Close-Up Footage of Mavi Marmara Passengers Attacking IDF Soldiers

First, you have a bunch of thugs illegally attacking and boarding aid vessels in international waters - the escalation was from the Israeli side, not from the aid-workers.

YouTube - Demonstrators Use Violence Against Israeli Navy Soldiers Attempting to Board Ship
YouTube - "Peace activists" stabbing IDF soldier
4. So running out of option Israel retaliated and 10 plus activists ended up dead.

Again, it is the IDF that escalated the situation by illegally attacking and boarding aid vessels carrying 'Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists, including a Nobel laureate and several European legislators', along with tons of aid, in international waters. There is no evidence to suggest that the vessels were trying to 'ram' IDF boats or fired on them, which means that Israeli action to stop them in international waters and board them was illegal and an escalation.

 

[IBRIS]

It wasn't about highlighting.
They people there need medicine and stuff. And they had to take it to the people.

They were warned about the blockade in advance. They wanted to search the ships, so they can pass the blockade and continue there journey to Gaza. But as we all saw what was said by the Aid Ship's captain. He didn't respect the blockade and marines were ordered to search the ship.

 

[AgNoStiC MuSliM]

- What do you mean by Illegal firing?? From Israeli POV this firing is not illegal...There is a bloackade and they warned the ship with AID well in advance which is they would be challenged if they fail to respect the so-called bloackade...

What gives Israel the right to set up a blockade in international waters and assault and board international aid vessels in international waters? Do they have UN sanction to do this?

Now did they opened firing with intentions of teaching aid-worker a lesson or the whole episode got triggered by some Aid worker attacking soldiers because of fear/anger i do not know...All i know is that nobody would wait till someone actually stab him/her with a knife before shooting out possible threat....

They obviously boarded the aid vessels with armed soldiers to 'teach aid workers a lesson' in terms of not providing aid to suffering Gazans. And may I remind you that the exact argument you offered in defense of the IDF shooting down aid workers applies better, and first, in the case of the passengers on board the vessels, who would have seen the IDF assaulting and boarding the boats as the 'threat' and some of them acted 'before the IDF could shoot them dead and confiscate their boats and aid supplies'.

 

[Jigs]

Turkey sends jets to evacuate injured activists - Israel News, Ynetnews

Turkey sends jets to evacuate injured activists

Ynet learns two Turkish military jets landed at Ben Gurion Airport to transport activists injured in deadly takeover of Gaza-bound aid flotilla.


Turkey sent two military jets to evacuate the activists injured in the takeover of the Gaza-bound aid flotilla, Ynet learned on Tuesday. There are currently 37 activists being treated in Israeli hospitals. In total, 679 activists were detained, and dozens have already been deported.


The Turkish government did not take Turkish Airlines up on its offer to transport the injured, and decided to take full responsibility for bringing them home.

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A Turkish military jet landed at the Haifa airport Tuesday afternoon. The airport's manager, Yossi Glassberg, told Ynet the jet contained 11 crew members and medical crew.


"They received fine treatment here, coffee, fax services. After consulting with their consulates, they took off for Ben Gurion Airport," he said. Glassberg added that another plane meant to land in Haifa instead went directly to Ben Gurion International Airport.


Six soldiers who were injured in the incident are still hospitalized at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa and the Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, and their conditions are improving. Two soldiers are in moderate condition, and the rest are in light condition.


Meanwhile, 33 foreign nationals were still hospitalized on Tuesday - four of them in serious condition, and the rest in light to moderate condition. The foreign activists are receiving treatment in hospitals in Haifa, Tel Hashomer, Petah Tikva and Jerusalem.



Most of the inured activists are Turkish citizens, and the rest are citizens of Great Britain, Australia, Indonesia and the Palestinian Authority. Fifteen foreign activists were discharged from Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, after being hospitalized there on Monday.


One of the hospitals reported that several of the patients refused to receive treatment.


Rambam hospital said the six foreigners it was treating were still under observation and could not be released.


Representatives of the Red Cross in Turkey landed in Israel on Tuesday to help transport the injured to their countries of origin.


Ali Arkul, one of the Turkish representatives said upon his arrival, "We are working with Magen David Adom in order to facilitate the transfer".


Dudi Abadi, a coordinator for Magen David Adom, met the Turkish representatives at the airport. "They arrived here in coordination with the Turkish embassy to check on the injured and look into the possibility of bringing some of them home."


Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had harsh words of criticism for Israel on Tuesday, and, in a speech before the parliament in Ankara, urged Israel to immediately release the injured and detained activists.


"Now Israel has shown to all the world how well it knows how to kill," he said. "People were killed and badly wounded, some from shots, even when bound. How human is this? There is no other way of explaining this to the world. All states condemn it, but this is not enough, we need results. People around the world need to know that one day justice will be revealed. If Israel does not immediately free all the detainees and wounded, the rift in relations with it will widen."



Yoav Zitun, Meital Yasur Beit-Or, Ahiya Raved and Eli Senyor contributed to this report

 

[T-Faz]

Israel says it will use more force against any new flotilla.

'Next time we'll use more force'

Read the peaceful comments by some of the Israelis and their supporters.

 

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[T-Faz]

The ship was turned into a lake of blood.

'The ship turned into a lake of blood,' says activist on Gaza flotilla - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

 

[Imran Khan]

I will say if turkey has balls for defend aid workers send them otherwisedon't let them go there. o was shocked when i read turkey now just talking only. its a shamefull movment for us turkey has a respect here and they losing it.

 

[Xeric]

They have been doing that to each other for decades. Their hatred should be accepted by the world as their way of life.

Jungle Raj, perhaps?

Why get shocked when you can expect anything else from either parties.

Jungle Raj for sure.

BTW, there were no terrorists (read Hamas) on those vessels. How do you exactly equate the both? Or may be aid workers in your definition are synonymous to terrorists?

They will kill each other with what ever they have got.

Flawed, ill-calculated and misunderstood perceptive.

Never knew that journalists and citizens of a NATO country would kill each other with what ever they have got.

 

[IBRIS]

They also issued all passengers life jackets and asked them to remain below deck.

Then what were they doing above the deck?.

Al Jazeera’s Ayman Mohyeldin, reporting from Jerusalem, said the Israeli action was surprising.

Nothing was surpring, they knew it was a naval blockade in advance. As we heard before in the video. It does not matter who is right and who is wrong. What matters is that a navy was there blockading. It' not like cop car chase where you have to keep chasing it.

So Israeli propaganda about the ships 'ramming the IDF' or other nonsense is just that , lies and propaganda.

I'm not disputing that. but i haven't seen ant attempt by Isrelis to ramp the Aid ship. So, aljazerra might be the one with propaganda in mind.

First, you have a bunch of thugs illegally attacking and boarding aid vessels in international waters - the escalation was from the Israeli side, not from the aid-workers.

Again, it is the IDF that escalated the situation by illegally attacking and boarding aid vessels carrying 'Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists, including a Nobel laureate and several European legislators', along with tons of aid, in international waters. There is no evidence to suggest that the vessels were trying to 'ram' IDF boats or fired on them, which means that Israeli action to stop them in international waters and board them was illegal and an escalation.

Like i said before it doesn't matter who is right or wrong. When a Navy blockade anyone's port. they are the one who are running that port now. Yes, it is an accupation. It's illigal but when a force is policing the area you better respect his authority or face the consiquences. Thats how the world work and that the way it is. All they had to do was go through a search and continue there journey to GAZA.

 

[Ahmad]

Its funny how the video of them firing from the helicopter before boarding the ship has completely vanished. makes you think, doesn't it.

how did you know about it? please post if you know about any videos.

 

[T-Faz]

how did you know about it? please post if you know about any videos.

Cant find them anymore, the link I had given before has another video on it now, some people saw that video too and thanked me.

 

[Comet]

They were warned about the blockade in advance. They wanted to search the ships, so they can pass the blockade and continue there journey to Gaza. But as we all saw what was said by the Aid Ship's captain. He didn't respect the blockade and marines were ordered to search the ship.

Yup, as I said we are moving in circles.

You guys are coming up with same "lame" arguments again and again.

Don't you feel any thing about the people who died? they had families... show some respect before defending Israel.

 

[Zillay_Khan]

Bloody ****** indians , im sorry i just hate them , for there torture and mas smurder of kashmiries, for all thos innocent sould that were bucthered on trains by the coward hindu mobs and trains, do you expect these fools to reason forget about it, God willing every drop of blood will be acounted for I agree one hundred percent with zaid hamid sahib on such issues