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Israeli commandos from the elite [[Shayetet 13]] unit boarded the ships at around 04:00 IST<ref name="haaretz-israel tows">{{cite news|title=Israel tows Gaza aid ships to Ashdod after 10 activists killed in clashes with navy|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-tows-gaza-aid-ships-to-ashdod-after-10-activists-killed-in-clashes-with-navy-1.293089|date=31 May 2010|work=Haaretz}}</ref> while in [[international waters]] {{convert|64|km|mi}} off the Gaza coast.<ref name="bbc-deaths as" /> Five of the six ships were apparently boarded without any major incidents.{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}} The Israeli commandos were prepared to encounter political activists seeking to hold a protest, and armed with paintball guns.<ref>{{cite news |
Israeli commandos from the elite [[Shayetet 13]] unit boarded the ships at around 04:00 IST<ref name="haaretz-israel tows">{{cite news|title=Israel tows Gaza aid ships to Ashdod after 10 activists killed in clashes with navy|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-tows-gaza-aid-ships-to-ashdod-after-10-activists-killed-in-clashes-with-navy-1.293089|date=31 May 2010|work=Haaretz}}</ref> while in [[international waters]] {{convert|64|km|mi}} off the Gaza coast.<ref name="bbc-deaths as" /> Five of the six ships were apparently boarded without any major incidents.{{Citation needed|date=May 2010}} The Israeli commandos were prepared to encounter political activists seeking to hold a protest, and armed with paintball guns.<ref>{{cite news |
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Gaza flotilla clash | |
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Location | International waters off the coast of the Gaza Strip |
Date | 31 May 2010 04:00[1] (UTC+3) |
Deaths | between 9-19 activists[2][3] |
Injured | up to 60 activists and 10 Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers wounded.[4] |
Perpetrators | Free Gaza Movement Israel Defense Forces |
Template:Campaignbox Arab-Israeli conflict The Gaza flotilla clash occurred in international waters[5] in the Mediterranean Sea on 31 May 2010 when a six-ship flotilla which intended to break through the Gaza blockade as a protest and to supply humanitarian aid was attacked and boarded by Israeli naval forces. Between 9 and 19 activists aboard one of the ships, the MV Mavi Marmara, were reported to have been killed in violence as Israeli forces boarded the ship,[2][6] with up to 60 activists and as many as 10 Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers wounded.[4][7] Details on the exact number of injured and killed are unknown because Israel's military censors have temporarily blocked the information. [8][9] The Free Gaza Movement's flotilla had planned to break through the Gaza blockade, despite Israeli declarations that they would turn the ships back and transfer the aid via land through Ashdod port.[4] After the flotilla activists ignored repeated calls to turn back, Israeli soldiers boarded the ships.[4][2][3] The boarding of one of the ships, the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara, turned violent. The Israel Defense Forces said that the activists fired on them,[10][failed verification] while activists said they only defended themselves after the soldiers opened fire.[4][11] Israel says the activists attacked and beat soldiers with iron clubs after they rappelled onto the vessel.[11] According to the IDF, the activists managed to capture one of the soldiers, wrest away his handgun, and hold him below deck, whereupon a firefight ensued.[12]
Israel's actions sparked widespread international criticism and the European Union, the United States and officials from the United Nations called for an investigation.[13] The incident prompted demonstrations against Israel in a number of countries, with Turkish demonstrators attempting to storm the Israeli consulate in Istanbul.[5]
Background
The six-ship flotilla, including Turkish, Irish, American, Swedish and Greek flagged ships,[14][15] was organized by the Free Gaza Movement (FGM) and the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedom and Humanitarian Relief to ship humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, which is currently blockaded by Israel following the 2007 Hamas takeover and the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. It was the ninth time that the FGM had tried to ship aid to Gaza. Five aid shipments had been allowed through prior to the Gaza war of 2008-09 but all shipments following the war were blocked by Israeli forces. The latest flotilla was the largest to date, carrying 10,000 tons of humanitarian aid and supplies. It also carried journalists, European parliamentarians and 700 pro-Palestinian activists, including the Northern Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire,[4] and the Israeli Islamic Movement in Israel head Raed Salah.[16] Many of those aboard were Turkish citizens,[5] though the flotilla also included activists from Algeria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Kuwait, Malaysia, Norway, The Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Israeli spokesmen stated that the flotilla would not be permitted to reach Gaza but would be redirected to the port of Ashdod, where a special detention facility had been set up for the activists. Israeli officials also claimed that all non-banned cargo would be transfered to Gaza after undergoing a security inspection.[17] Foreigners would be deported or, if they did not willingly agree to be deported, detained.[4] Activists aboard the ships repeatedly said they would not respond with violence to the navy's interception of their flotilla prior to the boarding.[18] Few independent accounts of the clash are available due to an Israeli communications blackout.[19]
Civilian ships involved
- Challenger 1[20]
- Challenger 1I[20]
- Eleftheri Mesogeios[21]
- MV Mavi Marmara (Blue Marmara)[5]
- MV Rachel Corrie[22]
- Sfendoni[21]
Events leading up to the clash
The flotilla began its journey on Sunday 30 May 2010 from international waters off the coast of Cyprus,[4] after the government of Cyprus refused to cooperate with the Free Gaza Movement, or allow activists to sail from its harbors, with the Cyprus Police stating that "anything related to the trip to Gaza is not permitted".[23] The flotilla sailed after two days of delays, aiming to reach Gaza on Monday afternoon.[4] The Israeli Navy made initial contact with the flotilla at 11 p.m. (23:00) on 30 May, 200 kilometres (120 mi) offshore in international waters, ordering the ships to follow them to port or otherwise be boarded.[24]
The Israeli navy 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 flanked the flotilla on either side, but at a distance.[25]
Just before the raid, the Israeli Navy again contacted the Mavi Marmara, warning it that it was approaching an "area of hostility which is under naval blockade", and telling it that it could instead dock in the Port of Ashdod, where the supplies would be delivered through the "formal land crossings" under the observation of activists, after which the fleet would be allowed to leave to their home ports". The Mavi Marmara replied "Negative, negative. Our destination is Gaza".[26]
Boarding
Israeli commandos from the elite Shayetet 13 unit boarded the ships at around 04:00 IST[1] while in international waters 64 kilometres (40 mi) off the Gaza coast.[5] Five of the six ships were apparently boarded without any major incidents.[citation needed] The Israeli commandos were prepared to encounter political activists seeking to hold a protest, and armed with paintball guns.[27][28] According to the Israeli Navy, the soldiers were told they were to verbally convince activists to give up, and if not successful, use paintballs. The army instructed the commando soldiers to use their handguns only under extreme circumstances.[29]
Sfendoni boarding
The Greek NGO, Boat for Gaza, reported that both the Sfendoni and the Mavi Marmara came under live fire.[30] At least one of the wounded activists was onboard the Sfendoni.[31]
Mavi Marmara boarding
According to the IDF, activists on the Mavi Marmara responded with violence and soldiers were forced to fire in self-defense.[32] A spokesperson for the Free Gaza Movement said in response that the activists were not planning to pose any violent resistance. "The only resistance that there might be would be passive resistance such as physically blocking the steering room, or blocking the engine room downstairs, so that they couldn't get taken over. But that was just symbolic resistance."[5]
Footage from the flotilla's lead vessel, the MV Mavi Marmara, showed activists clashing with Israeli soldiers. According to Major Avital Leibovich of the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, the activists attacked the soldiers with pistols, knives, slingshots, spikes and clubs.[10] According to Al Jazeera's journalist Jamal Elshayyal, a white surrender flag was raised from the ship and there was no live fire coming from the activists.[25]
According to the Israeli military, activists armed with knives, bats, slingshots used for shooting glass marbles, and metal pipes attacked commandos as they fast-roped from helicopters. Soldiers were reportedly beaten badly, but attempted to fight back. They had been equipped with paintball rifles to disperse protesters, and handguns for self-defense. A soldier was said to have been stabbed and seriously injured.[33] The Israeli military said that activists grabbed soldiers and tried to hold them hostage, stripping them of their helmets and equipment. An Israeli commando said "There was live fire at some point against us... They were shooting at us from below deck."[34] A second helicopter ferried in an additional 30 commandos who were also attacked as they descended. A firebomb and stun grenade were both thrown at troops. The commandos remained pinned down, and the planned rush towards the vessel's bridge became impossible. Commandos also boarded the boat from rubber dinghies, but activists beat their hands as they climbed aboard. Stun grenades were used in an attempt to disperse protesters, but the protesters continued to attack soldiers. One was stabbed with a knife. Some soldiers had their guns wrested away, and one was thrown to the lower deck 30 feet below, where he sustained a severe head injury. After this, the commander of the operation authorized the use of live ammunition. Commandos pulled out their handguns and began firing at the protesters legs, prompting a few protesters equipped with firearms wrested away from soldiers to return fire. Commandos then shot to kill, and fired at protesters attacking them with firearms, clubs, slingshots and knives, but managed to reach the bridge and take over the Marmara after 30 minutes.[35]
Claims of weapons found onboard
Israel said there were weapons on board: "We found weapons prepared in advance and used against our forces". Activists said that would be impossible because "all the boats were carefully inspected by the government before they left the port of departure."[36]
Following the clash
Following the clash, Israeli naval forces began towing the flotilla's vessels to Ashdod, from where the activists are to be deported.[5] Israel said humanitarian aid confiscated from the ships would be transferred to Gaza, but Israel would not transfer banned items such as cement.[4]
A statement released by the Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel claimed that violence against the soldiers was pre-planned, and that several pistols and "light weaponry" were found on the ships.[10][37][38]
The Israeli deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, expressed regret for the loss of life and asserted that Israel had done "everything to avoid this outcome". He accused the flotilla of being an "armada of hate" which had carried out a "premeditated and outrageous provocation".[5] Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak called the flotilla a "political provocation" and said that IHH, its sponsors, were "violent supporters of a terror organization" who were to blame for the bloodshed. Israeli Defense Forces chief Gabi Ashkenazi said that the use of live fire had been forced on the naval commandos by the activists' violence.[39]
Arrests
At least 32 activists who had been onboard the ships were arrested and incarcerated by the Israel Prisons Service, including two who were wounded but refused hospital treatment.[40]
Casualties and injuries
Activists
Reports indicate that between 9-19 activists have been killed and dozens more injured.[41][42]
Israeli
Israeli reports say that between 4 to 10 soldiers were injured in the clash.[4][7]
Notable people onboard FGM flotilla
- Kate Geraghty – Sydney Morning Herald photographer[43]
- Paul McGeough – Sydney Morning Herald journalist[43]
- Annette Groth[44] – Member of the German Bundestag
- Inge Höger[44] – Member of the German Bundestag
- Haneen Zoubi – Israeli-Arab member of Knesset[45]
- Raed Salah[16] – Leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel. Saleh was reported to be seriously wounded.[46]
- Waleed Al-Tabtabaie – Member of Kuwaiti parliament.[47]
- Abbas Nasser – Al Jazeera Arabic news journalist[48]
- Raza Agha – Pakistan's news channel AAJ TV producer[49]
- Talat Hussain – Pakistani journalist and executive director[50]
- Hilarion Capucci – Retired titular archbishop of Caesarea for the Melkite Greek Catholic Church[51]
- Jamal Elshayyal – News producer for Al Jazeera English[52]
- Nadezhda Kevorkova – Russian journalist[53]
- Edda Manga[54] – Swedish historian
- Henning Mankell[55] – Swedish author
- Dror Feiler[55] – Swedish-Israeli artist
- Mattias Gardell[54] – Swedish historian
- Mehmet Kaplan – Member of the Parliament of Sweden[56]
- Sinan Albayrak – Turkish actor [57]
- Abbas Al Lawati – Dubai-based Gulf News journalist[58]
- Hassan Ghani – Scottish journalist and documentary maker[59]
- Mairead Corrigan Maguire[4] – Northern Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Theresa McDermott – Scottish activist found in Ramleh prison four days after an attempted Gaza aid mission in 2009[59]
- Joe Meadors – a survivor of the USS Liberty incident[60]
Legality of raid
Dr. Robbie Sabel of Hebrew University, an international law expert, has stated that "a state, in a time of conflict, can impose an embargo, and while it cannot carry out embargo activities in the territorial waters of a third party, it can carry out embargo activities in international waters. Within this framework it is legal to detain a civilian vessel trying to break an embargo and if in the course of detaining the vessel, force is used against the forces carrying out the detention then that force has every right to act in self defense."[61] Senior political analyst Marwan Bishara of Al Jazeera has stated that "Attacking other nations' citizens in international waters because they resisted arrest is not only illegal, but serves to demean international legal norms".[62]
Mark Regev, spokesman for the Prime Minister of Israel, has stated that "the San Remo memorandum[63] states, specifically 67A, that if you have a boat that is charging a blockaded area you are allowed to intercept even prior to it reaching the blockaded area if you've warned them in advance, and that we did a number of times and they had a stated goal which they openly expressed, of breaking the blockade. That blockade is in place to protect our people."[64]
Turkey, the unofficial sponsor of the mission has said through its Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan "this attack is state terrorism, violating international law". The Turkish government has requested NATO convene in an emergency session to discuss the incident.[65][66]
Robin Churchill, a professor of international law at the University of Dundee in Scotland, said the Israeli commandos boarded the ship outside of Israel's territorial waters. "As far as I can see, there is no legal basis for boarding these ships," Churchill said.[67]
On Monday, a group of lawyers including Avigdor Feldman, Yiftah Cohen, Itamar Mann and Omer Shatz petitioned the Israeli High Court, charging that Israel had violated the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea by capturing the boats in international waters. Robbie Sabel, the former legal adviser to the Israeli foreign ministry, told The Jerusalem Post that the state would almost certainly argue that the seizure of the vessels was an executive act with which the court was not authorized to intervene.[68]
Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said she was registering shock "at reports that humanitarian aid was met with violence early this morning, reportedly causing death and injury as the convoy approached the Gaza coast"[69] and that "nothing can justify the appalling outcome of this operation, which reportedly took place in international waters."[70] Voice of Russia reported that "Russia calls attention to the fact that the Israeli interception of a Gaza-bound international aid flotilla took place in international waters, which represents a gross violation of international law".[71] The Organization of the Islamic Conference, an association of 57 Islamic states promoting Muslim solidarity, described the flotilla incident as "a serious escalation and a flagrant violation of the international law and human values." The organization further said it would initiate action at the level of the Security Council and the Human Rights Commission to examine the fallout of the attack.[72][73]
International reaction
There have been reactions from the United Nations, Israel, through Europe and the European Union, the United States, the Arab world, and elsewhere, as well as from human rights groups.
See also
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- ^ Новости в мире
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- ^ Swiss News: UN rights chief shocked at Gaza aid flotilla violence
- ^ Montreal Gazette: UN human rights chief condemns Gaza aid flotilla interception
- ^ Voice of Russia: Russia: Israel’s aid flotilla interception violated international law
- ^ Xinhua: Pan-Islamic body condemns Israeli attack on Gaza aid flotilla
- ^ Organization of the Islamic Conference: OIC Secretary General: Israeli Aggression on the Relief Convoy Heading for Gaza is a Crime and Blatant Violation of All International Laws Norms and Standards
External links
- Video: Close-Up Footage of Israeli soldiers boarding the Mavi Marmara (Youtube)
- Video: Helicoptor Footage of Israeli soldiers boarding the Mavi Marmara (Youtube)