German AideWorker: "Explosions were heard --PRIOR TO-- Israelis descending onto ship"

[charrob]

German AideWorker on board the Marmara:


Explosions were heard --PRIOR TO-- Israeli IDF descending onto ship from helicopter.

Explosions seemed to be heavy fragmentation, gas grenades, and tear gas. He has taken films of this but his camera equipment, like all flotilla passengers, has been confiscated by the Israelis, and so the international community cannot see the events except from films created by the Israelis.

He said they had expected the ship to be blocked or controlled. However what has happened here is a war crime: you have to name it like that.


This was not an act of self-defence."


His comments were backed up by two others on board the convoy when it was raided at dawn on Monday in international waters, MPs Inge Hoeger, 59, and Annette Groth, 56.

YouTube - German Flotilla Activist (English Subtitles) Gaza speaks on Israels attack on ship (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENgHdVEbjMU)


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there's a number of other witnesses whose stories corroborates this position:

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Israeli MP says Israel started shooting before even boarding flotilla ship:

YouTube - Israeli MP says Israel started shooting before even boarding flotilla ship (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1HEFXcRThA)

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"The Israeli Navy fired on the ships five minutes before commandos descended from ropes that dangled from helicopters, Zoabi said during a news conference in Nazareth, Israel. She said passengers on board the ship were unarmed."

http://chicagopressrelease.com/news/israel-begins-freeing-activists

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To be allowed deportation, Australian Journalists required to sign they "entered Israel illegally". They refused to sign this blasphemy, so continue to be imprisoned by the Israelis. Here's there story prior to leaving for their journey:

http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/world/humanitarian-flotilla-heads-to-israel/20100523-w3wt.html


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"Crew member Mihalis Grigoropoulos, who was steering the ship behind the Mavi Marmara, said: "We did not resist at all, we couldn't even if we had wanted to. He added: "There was great mistreatment after our arrest. We were hostages, like animals on the ground. They wouldn't let us use the bathroom, wouldn't give us f...ood or water and they took videos of us despite international conventions banning this."

Greek activist Dmitris Gelialis, who was on the Sfendoni, said: "They came up and used plastic bullets, we had beatings, we had electric shocks." He told how the ship's captain was beaten for refusing to leave the wheel, and said a man filming the raids was hit in the eye with a rifle butt."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/06/02/gaza-conflict-600-held-as-israel-tries-to-gag-witnesses-115875-22302824/

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Flotilla Survivor says Israeli marines boarded unarmed American ship throwing grenades :

YouTube - Flotilla Survivor says Israeli marines boarded unarmed American ship throwing grenades (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfn_bScn08E)

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[Liberty Star]

This could end up being as big an event as bombing attacks by Israeli terrorists disguised as arabs targetting US/UK buildings in Egypt ( Lavon Affair) that brought down Israeli government couple o decades ago. Question is who will become leader of this violent regime of scared children after current PM's government falls?

[Liberty Star]

I stand corrected, not PM but their defense minsiter had to resign after that false flag Israeli terrorist attack on American and British buildings:


The Lavon Affair refers to the scandal over a failed Israeli covert operation in Egypt known as Operation Susannah, in which Israeli military intelligence planted bombs in Egyptian, American and British-owned targets in Egypt in the summer of 1954 in the hopes that "the Muslim Brotherhood, the Communists, 'unspecified malcontents' or 'local nationalists'" would be blamed.[1] It became known as the Lavon Affair after the Israeli defense minister Pinhas Lavon, who was forced to resign because of the incident, or euphemistically as the Unfortunate Affair (Hebrew: העסק הביש‎, HaEsek HaBish). In 2005, Israeli President Moshe Katzav honored the nine Egyptian Jewish agents who were involved.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavon_Affair

[DAFTEK]

So the only media the world has seen is what the Israeli Government has released? They confiscated all recordings from the Flotilla!!! i hope they get flooded with hundreds of flotillas now from every nation in the world, they are barbaric terrorists!

[Vessol]

Holy shit that is some fast subtitles!

[MelissaWV]

So the only media the world has seen is what the Israeli Government has released? They confiscated all recordings from the Flotilla!!! i hope they get flooded with hundreds of flotillas now from every nation in the world, they are barbaric terrorists!

I still find it interesting that those recordings released 1) don't show the condition of the ship before the ropes were lowered (you'd think they'd want to, because as the ropes are in sight but no one is coming down, there are already people on the deck), 2) have really bad captions that misrepresent what's going on in the videos.