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          Ten dead as Israel storms aid ships, sparks outcry

          2010-05-31 20:33

          Ten dead as Israel storms aid ships, sparks outcry
          An Israeli commando lands on a Gaza-bound ship in the Mediterranean Sea in this frame grab taken from footage released by DHA on May 31, 2010. [Agencies]

          JERUSALEM - Israeli commandos stormed a convoy of Gaza-bound aid ships on Monday and more than 10 of the mostly international activists aboard were killed, provoking a diplomatic crisis and Palestinian charges of a "massacre".

          The violent end to a Turkish-backed attempt to break Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip by six ships carrying some 600 people and 10,000 tons of supplies raised an outcry across the Middle East and far beyond.

          As the navy escorted the vessels into Israel's port of Ashdod, accounts remained sketchy of the pre-dawn interception out in the Mediterranean, in which marines stormed aboard from dinghies and rappeled down from helicopters. Israel said "more than 10" activists died. Israeli media spoke of up to 19 dead.

          The bloodshed sparked street protests and government ire in Turkey, which had supported the convoy. Ankara recalled its ambassador from Israel and Turkish President Abdullah Gul demanded that the culprits be punished.

          The European Union demanded an inquiry and France and Germany said they were "shocked". The United Nations condemned violence against civilians in international waters.

          Israeli officials said the marines were met with gunfire and knives when they boarded the ships, which included a large ferry flying the Turkish flag. Activists seized at least two pistols from the boarding party, the officials said.

          Israel's attempts to maintain its three-year-old blockade on the Hamas Islamist-ruled enclave while avoiding bloodshed that would spark an international incident collapsed in spectacular fashion: "It's going to be a big scandal, no doubt about it," Israel's Trade Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer told Reuters.

          Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said: "What Israel has committed on board the Freedom Flotilla was a massacre." He declared three days of official mourning for the dead.

          Israel's deputy foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, blamed the activists for the violence and branded them allies of Israel's Islamist enemies Hamas and al Qaeda. Had they got through, he said, they would have opened an arms smuggling route to Gaza.

          There was no question of easing the blockade, he said.

          In a statement, the Israeli military said that in addition to the dead, numerous activists and five soldiers were injured.

          High alert, peace talks doubt

          Israeli forces were on high alert on the Gaza, Syrian and Lebanese borders as well as around Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank and areas of northern Israel where much of the country's Arab population lives. Israeli officials denied reports that a leading Israeli Arab Islamist had been killed on the convoy.

          Angry Palestinians gathered in Ramallah, their West Bank centre, and near a checkpoint to Jerusalem, which Israel closed.

          Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Ottawa. Officials said he was considering whether to cancel a White House meeting on Tuesday with US President Barack Obama and fly home early.

          Those talks had been expected to focus on US efforts to move along tentative negotiations with Abbas. But peace talks, mediated by Obama's envoy, seem unlikely to continue for now.

          Syria called for an emergency Arab League meeting. The Cairo-based League condemned what it called Israel's "terrorist act". Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called it "inhuman" and evidence of the Jewish state's weakness.

          More worryingly for Israel, its allies were unlikely to show much sympathy. The Turkish government, long Israel's lone friend in the Muslim Middle East, "strongly protested". It marked a new low in an already crumbling Israeli relationship with Ankara.

          "Israel will have to suffer the consequences of this behaviour," a Turkish Foreign Ministry statement said.

          Some 300 demonstrators chanted anti-Israeli slogans outside the Jewish state's Istanbul consulate. Police kept them at bay. The Israeli government advised Israeli tourists in Turkey to stay in their hotels.

          Greece, which had citizens aboard the convoy, halted a joint naval exercise with Israel and summoned the Israeli ambassador in Athens. Ireland, with citizens also engaged in the venture, said it was "gravely concerned".

          UN officials responsible for aid in Gaza said: "We are shocked by reports of killings and injuries of people on board boats carrying supplies for Gaza, apparently in international waters. We condemn the violence and call for it to stop."

          "Such tragedies are entirely avoidable if Israel heeds the repeated calls of the international community to end its counterproductive and unacceptable blockade of Gaza."

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