The full story is that these 'activists' refused to negociate with Israel about access to Gaza. As Gaza is controlled by Hamas, a registered terrorist group in the USA, Canada and the EU, all shipments to Gaza are checked for weapons. Israel offered to check it for weapons if it docked in Israeli territory, and would then have transfered the food and supplies staight to the Gazans. Instead, these madmen refused and decided to charged the fleet straight for Gaza knowing fully well that the Israeli fleet would try to stop them and check their boats. When the troops did, the 'activists' were well prepared for a fight, as this video shows, and threw gas grenades, used knives and metal pipes against armed soldiers. I'm shocked by what happened.
What happened is a tragedy, but it cold have been avoided if Turkey had not been following an anti-Israel policy by fueling these activists, andif these activists had simply followed the rules instead of trying, as usual, to force a confrontation with the Israeli military.
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