- Palestine
- June 5, 2010
- 2 minutes read
The Guardian: Gaza flotilla activists were shot in head at close range
LONDON, — Nine Turkish men on board Mavi Marmara were shot a total of 30 times, autopsy results reveal, the British newspaper the Guardian said.
It quoted Yalcin Buyuk, the vice-chairman of the Turkish council of forensic medicine, which carried out the autopsies for the Turkish ministry of justice, as saying on Friday that the bodies of nine Turkish activists were shot at 30 times.
The paper quoted one of the survivors Ismail Patel, the chairman of Leicester-based pro-Palestinian group Friends of al-Aqsa, who returned to Britain today, as telling how he witnessed some of the fatal shootings and claimed that Israel had operated a “shoot to kill policy”.
The paper’s report is found on the following link:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/04/gaza-flotilla-activists-autopsy-results