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Sun, June 06, 2010 | IDF Spokesperson

Specific Flotilla Activists Linked to Al-Qaeda, Hamas and Other Terror Organizations

Photo's published by the Turkey's newspaper Hürriyet shows how some of the Israeli naval soldiers were attacked and taken below deck after boarding the Mavi Marmara. Notice that one militant on the left picture holds a knife in his left hand.

The Israel Defense Forces revealed on Sunday that five of the pro-Palestinian activists aboard the Turkish-flagged ship it intercepted last week en route to the Gaza Strip have links to the Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements.

The military did not specify whether these five activists took part in the violent clashes with the Israel Navy commandos that left nine people dead and several more wounded. (Ha’aretz, Sun, June 06, 2010)

The following passengers on board the Mavi Marmara are known to be involved in terrorist activity. The Mavi Marmara attempted to break the maritime closure on the Gaza Strip on Monday, May 31st 2010, and was boarded by Israel Navy forces.

• Fatimah Mahmadi (born 1979, Iran), is a United States resident of Iranian origin, and an active member of the organization “Viva Palestine”, she attempted to smuggle forbidden electronic components into the Gaza Strip.
• Ken O’Keefe (Born 1969), an American and British citizen, is a radical anti-Israel activist and operative of the Hamas Terror organization. He attempted to enter the Gaza Strip in order to form and train a commando unit for the Palestinian terror organization.
• Hassan Iynasi (born 1982), a Turkish citizen and activist in a Turkish charity organization, is known of providing financial support to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Terror organization.
• Hussein Urosh, a Turkish citizen and activist in the IHH organization, was on his way to the Gaza Strip in order to assist in smuggling Al-Qaeda operatives via Turkey into the Strip.
• Ahmad Umimon (born 1959), is a French citizen of Moroccan origin, and an operative of the Hamas Terrorist organization.

Photo published in the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet showing Israeli naval soldiers wounded after the pre-planned violence by the Mavi Marmara militants and taken below deck by the activists. Some reports have said that they wanted to take hostages and to negotiate a way to the Gaza Strip.

This is once more evidence that “The Gaza Flotilla” was not a humanitarian flotilla with peace activists, but a hate flotilla with muslim extremists who pre-planned the violence and deliberately provoked the Israel navy.