Smuggled video shows Israeli snipers aiming, firing at Gaza Flotilla activists

[Blaze]

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June 17, 2010 — Smuggled raw footage of the Israeli commandos' assault on Gaza Freedom Flotilla, taken by an eyewitness, has been published online. Activist Iara Lee has kept the recordings despite the Israeli government's efforts to confiscate all footage of the attack. This is an excerpt from the full one-hour long video:

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And in case you forgot:
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[Blaze]

Journalist Manolo Luppichini has written Netanyahu, Peres, Barak, Lieberman and Israel's ambassador in Italy over the matter.

By Dimi Reider
An Italian journalist who was detained by the Israel Defense Forces following the raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla says his credit card was used to purchase items after it was confiscated by the Israeli authorities.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/italian-flotilla-journalist-my-credit-card-was-used-after-idf-confiscated-it-1.295493

[Blaze]

Jewish Voices for a Just Peace seeks second vessel, as dozens more activists ask to take part in aid mission.

By DPA
Tags: Jewish world Israel news

An association of German Jews planning to send a boat with humanitarian aid to break the Gaza blockade is searching for a second vessel, given the high number of requests to travel with the group.

The group, Jewish Voices for a Just Peace, had originally planned to send one small vessel from an unnamed Mediterranean port in mid-July, with the intention of getting aid past the Israeli-imposed blockade of Gaza.

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/german-jews-inundated-with-requests-to-join-new-gaza-aid-flotilla-1.296146

[Blaze]

Sat, 06/12/2010 - 16:42 — lindorff
by:
Dave Lindorff
The false narrative initially put out by the Israeli government of hapless IDF commandos severely threatened by hardened "terrorists" on the Mavi Marmara has fallen apart, amid revelations of doctored photos, dubbed voices and other deceptions and the patent absurdity of the claim that the commandos had boarded the ship armed only with "paint guns" and low-caliber pistols. Now the Big Lie stands further exposed, thanks to a smuggled-out video showing IDF commandos kicking a prone, helpless victim and then apparently executing him with semi-automatic rifle fire at almost point-blank range.

This smuggled video, showing IDF commandos brutally kicking their captive, who is clearly posing no threat to them, and then firing four shots downward, shows these commandos were on the ship with intent to kill and injure, and that is what they did. They were certainly not kicking and shooting here to protect their lives. This looks more like a Rodney King moment than self-defense.

Update: My colleage Linn Washington, who is knowledgeable about firearms, says that the gun in the video appears to be a pump-action Remington 870 shotgun--a potent and lethal firearm used widely by police for "riot control," that could cause the types of wounds found in the Turkish autopsies of victims if fired at close range, and one that is in the Israeli arsenal.

There are claims from Turkish sources that this clip depicts the 19-year-old American-born Furkan Dogan being executed. Dogan's autopsy showed he was shot four times in the face, and at least once in the back.

IDF defenders are claiming that the video doesn't actually show the victim, but unless you think the first commando is kicking soccer goals on the deck, and the shooter is firing at the deck for sport, there can be no doubt that the target of both acts of violence is being first pummeled with kicks, and then peppered with bullets.

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/95

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[Jagermeister]

Cool! Did they hit any of them ????

[Nitro Express]

Israel is going down. It's just a matter of time. They have spent their holocaust compassion equity and the world just views them as a bunch of thugs now.

[GAR]

This smuggled video, showing IDF commandos brutally kicking their captive, who is clearly posing no threat to them

Clearly? Where! More pro-Jihadist bullshit from Blaze.. I can't see a FUCKING thing clear in that shit!

I hear some "fla la la bla gla muh fah muzzah di fah" bullshit pretty clear, but my Arabic's even more rusty than the footage. So fuck that narrative in the ass of The Prophet!

[Nickdfresh]

Another public relations nightmare for the Israeli state...

[Blaze]

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[GAR]

I think what's clear here is that Israel should just sink anything that runs the blockade and gets near the shoreline..