IHH plans new flotilla for Gaza
By JPOST.COM STAFF
LAST UPDATED: 06/16/2010 15:05
Group head tells newspaper IDF hit list found on 'Mavi Marmara.'
Marmara passengers prepare for IDF raid Photo: IDF Spokesperson
The IDF tried to
assassinate leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement, Sheikh
Raed Salah, claimed the head of the Turkish organization IHH, Bulent Yildirim,
on Wednesday in an interview with the Qatari newspaper Al-Asharq.
An IDF hit list of
16 activists to be assassinated "fell from the pocket of an Israeli
commando during the boarding of the Mavi
Marmara," Yildirim
stated.
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Salah himself also had accused Navy commandos of
trying to kill him during the takeover of the Gaza-bound protest ship.
“IDF
soldiers tried to kill me. They
shot toward someone else they
thought was me,” he said before a court hearing.
Yildirim also
defiantly proclaimed that the IHH would continue to organize and send
ships to Gaza and that family members of the nine Turks killed in the Mavi Marmara affair have requested
to join the next IHH flotilla to the Gaza Strip.