Ankara, Turkey – Pictures showing bloodied Israeli commandos being overpowered by activists aboard an aid ship targeted in the deadly raid May 31 were published Sunday by daily Hürriyet after being recovered from a digital camera’s memory card.
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Israeli forces seized the cameras belonging to activists and journalists onboard the Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara and erased their memory cards after the raid, which killed eight Turks and one American of Turkish origin, the daily said.
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One of the photos that was recovered, published on Hürriyet’s front page, shows an Israeli soldier holding the back of his head with one hand; blood is on his face and the front of his shirt is torn open.
Another image shows the same soldier holding his nose while blood streams down from a head wound; as a cameraman records the incident, the soldier is led down stairs by an activist.
A third photo shows another soldier, wearing a black woolen cap, lying on his back on the deck of the ship, held down by his arms by an activist. A bloodstain is visible on the commando’s pants.
Other pictures show a commando falling down stairs and another soldier being assisted by medics aboard the ferry.
Kenneth Nichols O’Keefe, a U.S. Gulf War veteran who was aboard the ferry, said he was among the activists who overpowered three Israeli soldiers, according to the Anatolia news agency.
“[The soldiers] looked at us… They thought we would kill them, but we let them go,” O’Keefe said, adding that he took the weapon of one of the soldiers and emptied it, according to the Anatolia report.
How noble of Mr O’keefe and the rest of the “activists”. the soldiers thought they were gonna get killed, but the just got the **** beaten out of them. Can’t wait to see how the world will twist these pix against Israel?
it looks like the Turkish press is not buying their governments story
After looking at the images I cannot understand why these ships where not sunk on the spot!
and the world won’t care
Can these be sent to the Ap ,Fox News BBc,cnn,MSNBC etc…..
Is thgat a knife at the bottom right corner of the picture? So much for peaceful activists looks like a bunch of thugs to me.
how is this serving turkeys interest? why would they publish it?
I hope those are the animals that got killed
The activists outsmarted the Israelis (once more). They beat the soldiers but stopped short of killing them. Israel played right into their hands by killing 9 of them. The UN Investigative report will make the Goldstone report look good. Barak and Ashkenazi should take full responsibility and resign.
These people are behemos. How on earth does the Turkish media think this helps their case? It proves these psychos were not ‘humanitarians’.
The activists outsmarted the Israelis (once more). They beat the soldiers but stopped short of killing them. Israel played right into their hands by killing 9 of them. The UN Investigative report will make the Goldstone report look good. Barak and Ashkenazi should take full responsibility and resign.
these soldiers were sacrificed on the alter of public relations, to impress the world of how the jew restrained himself and allowed himself to get beaten and being disgraced. those non jewish jews will never learn that the jew was, is and always will be hated regardless of how nice and good they are. those who sent them with orders not defend themselves should prosecuted and shot for treason.
The peace people anti-semites, as usual are only waring with Israel not trying to make peace and do not really care about the Palestinians. As Netanyau said in his speech last week that the Iranians are using the peace people to help Iran establish an Iranian Naval base in the Medditerainian Sea. This would threaten Europe and the USA. The 10,000 Irish people at the funeral of the Irishman who was killed chanted down with Israel. In the past the IRA trained with the Palastinians and gave them money. This is the thanks we get for sending Ireland aid of $1,000 in 1846 during the great potato fammine which is equal to todays $80,000. Thank You very much! It is well known that the Irish and most Catholics are rabid anti-semites. I have had first hand experience with this fact. As a youth I was attacked countless times by roving gangs of Irish. My own father in the 1940s was thrown into the East River by 2 Irish men on the second day of Rosh Hashana while he saying Tashlich. It is a good thing my father knows how to swim.
just imagine if there soldiers would of been taken hostage. another 5-10 shalit’s
Reply to #20 I have been reading your comments for a while now on various other topics. You have this thing about correcting people for their spelling, grammar, and English useage. You are not a big wheel you are a flat tire. You are an arragrant slob! You are a depraved person who wanted to be a teacher to bully, harrass, and intimidate kids but never had the guts to teach? Your remarks disgust me. People type and express themselves the best way they can. It isn’t how they write it is the idea they are trying to express. Your ideas are brainless and worthless so you have to jump on others for their English usage. You are a very arrogant person and I don’t want to see your stupid comments abour English useage again! Try to write something that is reallly important. So people have certain disabilities where they are unable to spell or express themselves clearly. You enjoy mocking these people and I am sick of it! Please stop it and get a life!
But the Israeli’s committed a terrorist act!! State piracy! If I was on that ship I would’ve killed every single one of those that had attacked our brave soldiers. But the world still needs to “probe” the raid. The hell with the UN and the rest of the world. You threaten a soldiers life you suffer the consequences-PERIOD!
Israel is stupid if you can kill 9 you couldv killed more
shouda killed hundreds
when I see these pictures I am even angrier at the Israeli army that they didnt just blow these people away. Why do I need to see one of my Holy Yiddishe neshomos that way, why, ad mosai.
Charlie , anxiously , awiting your thoughtful comments on Ms. Helen Thomas’ very liberal comments vis-a vis Jews .
These pictures were released in order to further erode the image of Israeli soldiers as supermen or warriors to be feared.
While there isn’t a significant history of anti-semitism in Ireland, that’s mainly due to the relatively small number of Jews who’ve ever lived there. The Irish-American community has always been rife with anti-semitism and it continues to this very day.
How many normal civilians would think of rushing an armed soldier? Watching the video these guys charged the soldiers with clubs and knives the second they hit the deck. I guess the face of peace activism has changed.
“The IRA has far more support in the US than Ireland. Its allied political party, Sinn Fein, currently has four seats out of 166 in the Irish parliament. But its past support for the Palestinians — and its support for the Nazis during WW2 (which led Eamon De Valera to suppress them rather brually) — didn’t stop opportunistic US politicians like Peter King from supporting them. “
Ted Kennedy, a Democrat, also supported them.