Daily Hürriyet publishes photos of bloodied Israeli soldiers

Πηγή: Hurriyet

Pictures showing bloodied Israeli commandos being overpowered by activists aboard an aid ship targeted in the deadly raid May 31 were published Sunday by daily Hürriyet after being recovered from a digital camera’s memory card.
Israeli forces seized the cameras belonging to activists and journalists onboard the Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara and erased their memory cards after the raid, which killed eight Turks and one American of Turkish origin, the daily said.
One of the photos that was recovered, published on Hürriyet’s front page, shows an Israeli soldier holding the back of his head with one hand; blood is on his face and the front of his shirt is torn open.

Another image shows the same soldier holding his nose while blood streams down from a head wound; as a cameraman records the incident, the soldier is led down stairs by an activist.
A third photo shows another soldier, wearing a black woolen cap, lying on his back on the deck of the ship, held down by his arms by an activist. A bloodstain is visible on the commando’s pants.
Other pictures show a commando falling down stairs and another soldier being assisted by medics aboard the ferry.
Kenneth Nichols O’Keefe, a U.S. Gulf War veteran who was aboard the ferry, said he was among the activists who overpowered three Israeli soldiers, according to the Anatolia news agency.
“[The soldiers] looked at us... They thought we would kill them, but we let them go,” O'Keefe said, adding that he took the weapon of one of the soldiers and emptied it, according to the Anatolia report.