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İHH releases photos of Israeli soldiers
The photos were released by the Turkish activist group Humanitarian Aid Foundation (İHH). According to İHH, the Israeli soldiers were injured while storming the ship in confrontations with activists aboard and were later returned to other Israeli troops who boarded the ship.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the series of images “shows that our boarding party in fact did face deadly violence from the hardcore Islamist activists on the boat from the fundamentalist İHH movement.”
Osman Atalay, a senior İHH official, said the soldiers were in the first group of commandos that boarded the ship. He said the images show activists “intervening” or “tending to” the injured soldiers.
Bülent Yıldırım, who heads the İHH, has said people on the ship attacked Israeli soldiers “with chairs and iron bars in self-defense.” He has not commented on the use of slingshots but has insisted there were no weapons on board the ship, whose cargo he says was inspected by Turkish authorities.
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