An Algerian activist, who only gave her first name as Sabrina, accused Israeli commandos of taking a 1-year-old child “hostage.”
“They point a gun to his head in front of his Turkish parents to force the captain of our ship to stop sailing,” she said.
Norman Paech, a former member of Germany's Left Party who was aboard the Mavi Marmara, said the ship was surrounded by small Israeli assault boats around 4:30 a.m. Monday. “Moments later, we heard detonations, and then soldiers from helicopters above us dropped down on board,” Paech said. “The soldiers were all masked, carrying big guns -- and were extremely brutal.”
German Left Party lawmaker Inge Hoeger, who was also on the Mavi Marmara, condemned the raid as a “war crime.”
“We felt like we were in the middle of a war, like we'd been kidnapped,” said Hoeger. “What the Israelis did is a violation of international law.”
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