Rapport om Gazakonvojen

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center har sammanställt en mängd fakta angående Gazakonvojen och händelserna i samband med den israeliska bordningen av det turkiska skeppet Mavi Marmara.
Läs hela rapporten här:

IHH Preparations for a Violent Confrontation with IDF SoldiersAboard the Turkish Ship Mavi Marmara
Initial conclusions from questioning passengers and examining equipment on board the ship

Overview
1. An initial analysis of statements taken from passengers aboard the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara after it was towed to the port of Ashdod show that operatives belonging to the radical Islamic Turkish IHH1 led the violent confrontation with the IDF.
2. The statements confirmed that the violence met by the IDF soldiers was not spontaneous but rather an organized, premeditated action carried out by a hard core of 40 IHH operatives (among the 500 passengers). The operatives, who acted according to a clearly-defined internal hierarchy, boarded the ship in the port of Istanbul without undergoing a security inspection (as opposed to the other passengers, who boarded in Antalya after a full inspection).
3. The IHH operatives’ preparations included handing out walkie-talkies as they boarded the ship, taking over the upper deck, setting up a situation room for communications, and a briefing given to the operatives two hours before the confrontation by IHH head Bülent Yildirim, who was on board the ship and commanded his men. IHH operatives wore ceramic vests and gas masks, and were armed with large quantities of cold weapons which they had prepared from equipment found on board (knives, axes, metal cables, metal pipes used as clubs, wrenches, etc.). They were also equipped with box cutters which had been prepared on the upper deck in advance.
4. The passengers, including the IHH operatives, stated that there were close relations between the organization and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and that the Turkish government was involved in preparations for the flotilla. The statements reinforce the original assassment that the objective of the flotilla was not merely to bring humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, but focused on provocation and a violent confrontation with Israel.

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Här kan man läsa israeliska utrikesministeriets rapport om vilka förnödenheter som fanns med i Gazakonvojen. Värt att notera att passagerarfärjan Mavi Marmara där oroligheterna utspelade sig inte hade några förnödenheter överhuvudtaget i lasten. Sammanlagt tre av de sju skeppen förde med sig enbart passagerare och deras bagage.
Enligt rapporten var en del av varorna på fraktfartygen slarvigt packade och delvis förstörda.
Summary of equipment and aid aboard the Gaza flotilla