A detailed and easy-to-read background and summary of the Flotilla crisis prepared by Middle East Projects Director Yitzhak Santis. The documents is available for reading online and to be downloaded to your computer.
June 10, 2010 — Interview conducted with the captain (one of three), while in custody in Israel. Video released via the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. Interview is in English with Hebrew subtitles.
"What About Hamas' Siege of Gaza?" by Khaled Abu Toameh
"It's time to stop demonizing Israel" by Bernard-Henri Lévy
June 4, 2010 - In response to a radio transmission by the Israeli Navy warning the Gaza flotilla that they are approaching a naval blockade, flotilla passengers respond, "Shut up, go back to Auschwitz" and "We're helping Arabs go against the US, don't forget 9/11."
May 30, 2010 — The Israeli Navy addresses a ship nearing the Gaza shore , offering it to dock at the Ashdod Port and transfer its supplies under the ship's crew's supervision. The ship refused to comply.
May 31, 2010 — Video taken by IDF naval boat shows the passengers of the Mavi Marmara, one of the ships in the 'Free Gaza' Flotilla, violently attacking IDF soldiers who were trying to board the ship after having sent repeated requests for the boat to change course.
Large groups of passengers surrounded soldiers and beat them with metal poles and chairs, and threw one soldier over the side of the ship. Some passengers grabbed pistols from the IDF soldiers and opened fire. As a result of the attacks, seven IDF soldiers were injured, and nine of the passengers were killed.
May 31, 2010 - Flotilla 'peace activists' beating Israeli soldier on the deck of the Mavi Marmara
Hamas Prime minister Ismail Haniyeh (second from right) shakes hands with Bay Area resident Paul Larudee, founder of Free Gaza Movement, in Gaza City (August 24, 2008 photos courtesy of Associate Press)May 30, 2010 — The Israeli Navy addresses a ship nearing the Gaza shore , offering it to dock at the Ashdod Port and transfer its supplies under the ship's crew's supervision. The ship refused to comply.
May 31, 2010 — Video taken by IDF naval boat shows the passengers of the Mavi Marmara, one of the ships in the 'Free Gaza' Flotilla, violently attacking IDF soldiers who were trying to board the ship after having sent repeated requests for the boat to change course.
Large groups of passengers surrounded soldiers and beat them with metal poles and chairs, and threw one soldier over the side of the ship. Some passengers grabbed pistols from the IDF soldiers and opened fire. As a result of the attacks, seven IDF soldiers were injured, and nine of the passengers were killed.
May 31, 2010 - Flotilla 'peace activists' beating Israeli soldier on the deck of the Mavi Marmara
