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<font size=4><b>'Israelis threw 4 injured into the sea'<br><br>
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</a>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:37:12 GMT<br><br>
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Pro-Palestinian protesters simulate the funeral of an activist in a
demonstration against Israel's attack on the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla
in Barcelona.<br>
Activist Idris Simsek, who was on board one of the six ships of the
Freedom Flotilla during the Israeli attack, claims that four wounded
activists were thrown into the sea. <br><br>
The Israeli troops also put immense psychological pressure on the
activists of the Freedom Flotilla, the Turkish daily <i>Today's Zaman</i>
quoted Simsek as saying in an article published on Saturday. <br><br>
Simsek said they expected some harassment from the Israeli forces but did
not expect an armed attack. <br><br>
He went on to say that he witnessed that the person who waived the white
flag to surrender was shot by the Israeli troops. <br><br>
Erol Demir, another activist who was on the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara,
said there is film footage of the chaos and the carnage on the ship and
stated that the footage will show the real face of the Israeli military
to the entire world. <br><br>
“They even shot those who surrendered. Many of our friends saw this. They
told me that there were handcuffed people who were shot,” he added.
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Hakan Albayrak, a journalist from the Turkish daily <i>Yeni Safak</i> who
was also on the ship, said, “It was an outright massacre what Israel did
out there. They attacked us in international waters… We had no weapons. I
think we lost more people.” <br><br>
The Israeli military attacked the Freedom Flotilla in international
waters in the Mediterranean Sea early on May 31, killing nine Turkish
citizens on board the six ships and injuring about 50 other people.
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The fate of three other Freedom Flotilla activists is still unknown.
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Israel also arrested nearly 700 activists from 42 countries on board the
ships of the Freedom Flotilla, which was attempting to break the siege of
Gaza in order to deliver 10,000 tons of humanitarian assistance to the
long-suffering people of the territory. <br><br>
SG/HGL <br><br>
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