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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=177040
Navy Commandos: "Ship Activists Came for War"
(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Katz - After several hours of radio communications and warnings that the Mavi Marmara would be boarded if the captain did not change his ship's course, at 4 a.m. Monday, Navy Commander Vice-Admiral Eliezer Marom gave the order to board the ship. "As the 15 of us slid down the ropes, 30 of them were waiting for us on the deck," one of the commandos later said. "They charged us and threw a few of the soldiers off the deck to the floor below." The soldiers "engaged in hand-to-hand combat, sustained injuries, but only opened fire after one of them was lying on the ground unconscious and two others had been shot. This was an unbelievable demonstration of restraint," said one police source.