Photos show Mavi Marmara passengers protecting and aiding Israeli soldiers

gar | 06.06.2010 21:16 | Palestine | World

Photos show Mavi Marmara passengers protecting and aiding Israeli soldiers
An additional photo, not included in the Hürriyet gallery, but posted on theFacebook fan page of The Economist shows the same soldier, and the person who was holding him, while a third person administers medical care. (Thanks to

http://twitter.com/AmoonaM for tracking down this picture)

http://garizo.blogspot.com/2010/06/photos-show-mavi-marmara-passengers.html
from Huryet

protected .. not to be fotographed.

Finally, the fact that passengers were giving aid to captured Israeli hijackers even as the ship was still under full scale assault by the Israeli military is bolstered by video which has recently emerged of the first moments of the attack. In the video, passengers are appealing for help and one says clearly that several soldiers were injured in their descent from the choppers, that they had been taken by the passengers and were receiving medical care. This is in the thick of the action, so it seems entirely credible that the passenger is reporting what he had just witnessed.
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article in question

07.06.2010 00:28

ps heres the article in question - it's in the slideshow

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6512VU20100606

anon

Passengers have every right to use force against an armed assault

07.06.2010 08:20

If you are passengers on an aid ship and masked armed men land on your ship, I think you have every right to use force against them. It's a shame more of the Israeli soldiers weren't seriously injured or killed.

Although tactically it might not be a good idea to attack them, seeing as they have machine guns and the passengers only have sticks and knives. But it's still totally right in moral terms.

anon

peace for palestine

07.06.2010 10:51

Israel was wrong.Their soldiers cowardly attacking people, pretending to be heroes. Has there ever been a time when the IDF acted like a proper soldiers? ie restrained, self-controlled and above all - PROTECTING THE WEAK AND DEFENCELESS. Israel you've shamed yourself and the jewish people yet again, now go in peace. shalom

tony

the video

07.06.2010 21:27

the video >>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1ZOkXZCL4

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doesnt show much

08.06.2010 02:36

Doesn't show the actual boarding though, does it? You can see them descend and hear sounds of some kind of battle but there's no particular evidence, just lots of shouting and blur-o-vision

anonymouse