The leading TURKISH newspaper Hurriyet showed some of the soldiers after being brutally beaten, some of them knocked unconscious under merciless attacks of Turkish citizens using metal clubs.
The photos were a gruesome confirmation of the IDF’s documented evidence that the soldiers boarded the Mani Mamara ship were assaulted as they climbed down from ropes attached to a helicopter. Unlike the activists on the five other boats on the flotilla, approximately 50 men on the Mamara were trained for hand-to-hand combat and planned the ambush of the Navy soldiers: one of these "peace activists" Israeli commandos finally shot was a world karate champion: a dove of pece, no doubt.