A report published on Monday (June 14) by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, offers an in-depth analysis of testimonies by Mavi Marmara passengers and IDF soldiers that boarded the ship. The report determined that passengers on the Mavi Marmara were prepared to resist the IDF soldiers and use violent measures against them.
The equipment left on the Marmara and comments made by the passengers in the foreign media following the flotilla takeover show that the organizers of the flotilla, the leadership of the Turkish IHH organization, prepared for attacking the IDF soldiers. The IHH gathered about 60 members to be the “hard core” of the violent provocation at sea. These passengers boarded the ship in Istanbul and Antalya, bypassing security clearance. In order to differentiate between the 60 members and the rest of the passengers, those hard core operatives wore vests with the word ‘SECURITY’ written on them.
The protocol of a meeting held by the ship's leadership on May 16th shows that members of the IHH were dominant in whole organization of the flotilla. Other organizations that funded the flotilla decided to try and avoid confrontation with IDF soldiers and even committed the passengers to sign an agreement forbidding them from any verbal or physical violence. However, the IHH arranged a meeting in which the heads of the Turkish organization coordinated their actions with the other ships sailing to Gaza. Likewise they also arranged where the members would be located, half on the upper deck and the other half on the lower deck.
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