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Israel's Gaza Flotilla Probe: IDF Soldiers Acted in Self-Defense
(Ha'aretz) Barak Ravid - Israeli soldiers who took part in a raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla last May which resulted in the deaths of nine people had acted in self-defense, according to the first part of a report by an Israeli panel of inquiry into the incident, which was released Sunday. The Turkel Commission also determined that Israel's three-and-a-half year blockade of Gaza does not break international law. The Israeli Navy's boarding of the ship did not constitute an offense against international law as there were clear indications that the flotilla intended to break the naval blockade. The panel's two foreign observers, Brig. Gen. Ken Watkin of Canada and Lord David Trimble of Northern Ireland, have both signed off on the report's conclusions.