- Ali Haydar Bengi, 39, ran a telephone repair shop in Diyarbakir. He was a graduate of Al-Azhar University, Cairo (Department of Arabic Literature). He was married to Saniye Bengi and had four children Mehunur (15), Semanur (10), and twins Mohammed and Senanur (5).
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Maria Cengiz Akyüz, 41, was from Iskenderun. He was married to Nimet Akyüz and had three children Furkan (14), Beyza (12), and Erva Kardelen (nine).
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Maria Cevdet Kiliçlar, 38, was from Kayseri. He was a graduate of Marmara University's Faculty of Communications and formerly a newspaper journalist for the National Gazette and the Anatolia Times. For the past year, he was a reporter and webmaster for the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH). He was married to Derya Kiliçlar, and had one daughter, Gülhan, and one son, Erdem.
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Maria Cetin Topçuoglu, 54, was from Adana. He was a former amateur soccer player and taekwondo champion who coached Turkey's national taekwondo team. He was married and had one son, Aytek. His wife, Cigdem Topçuoglu, was also aboard the Mavi Marmara, but survived.
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Maria Necdet Yildirim, 32, was an IHH aid worker from Malatya. He was married to Refika Yildirim and had one daughter, Melek, aged three.
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Maria Cengiz Songür, 47, was from Izmir. He was married to Nurcan Songür and had six daughters and one son.
Twenty-eight children lost their fathers as a result of the Israeli attack on the Freedom Flotilla.
Nine people were shot dead on May 31 by Israeli soldiers who attacked the Turkish vessel M.V. Mavi Marmara as it attempted to transport humanitarian assistance to the Gaza Strip.
Eight of them were fathers whose children are now yatims due to the Israeli assault on the Freedom Flotilla.
The Arabic word yatim is usually translated as orphan. However, in the Islamic religion, the word yatim actually means a child whose father is dead or whose father and mother are dead. This is the reason why Islamic media outlets are calling the children orphans.
The Israeli military attacked the Freedom Flotilla in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea early on May 31, killing nine Turkish citizens on board the six ships and injuring about 50 other people.
The fate of three other Freedom Flotilla activists is still unknown.
Israel also arrested nearly 700 activists from 42 countries on board the Freedom Flotilla, which was attempting to break the siege of Gaza in order to deliver 10,000 tons of humanitarian assistance to the long-suffering people of the territory.
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Maria 31 mei 2010
Fatima Sabarna, 55
Palestinian Woman Killed by Settler's Car
A Palestinian woman died of wounds suffered when a settler hit her with his car Sunday, Palestinian medical sources in Hebron reported. Her husband was also wounded in the attack.
The woman, Fatima Sabarna, 55, was seriously injured after the car hit her. The settler fled the scene.
Local sources reported that the woman and her husband were walking near the Beit Ummar Graveyard on the Hebron-Jerusalem road when they were rammed by the settler.
Sabarna was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at the Al Ahly Hospital in Hebron, where she later died of her wounds.
Her family said that Israel refused a request to transfer her to an Israeli hospital.
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Maria 1 juni 2010
Five Gazans killed by Israeli fire
Five Palestinians fighters have been killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip, officials and medics have said.
A spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees said three of the group's members had been killed in an Israeli air strike over the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
Islamic Jihad identified the two men killed in the other incident as members of their group.
The Israeli military confirmed it had carried out an air raid about an hour after two makeshift rockets were fired from the Strip.
Israeli authorities said the projectiles landed in open areas and caused no injuries.
Muawiya Hassanein, the head of Gaza emergency services, said the three Palestinians were killed in the northern Gaza Strip and had been brought to a morgue in Gaza City.
Israeli troops had earlier shot dead two Palestinian gunmen who had snuck across the border in the southern part of the territory, according to a military spokeswoman.
"There was an exchange of fire in which they were killed," she said, adding that no Israelis were Five Gazans killed by Israeli fire Israeli naval commandos stormed a flotilla carrying hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists to Gaza on Monday, killing up to 10 people.
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"You Just Had On 10 Minutes Of Pro-Israeli Propaganda Filled With Falsehoods!" Glenn Greenwald
(6:25) "You Just Had On 10 Minutes Of Pro-Israeli Propaganda Filled With Falsehoods!" Glenn Greenwald
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Maria 1 juni 2010
Muhammad Amin Muhammad Shahawan 16
Abdul Rahman 'Omar 'Abdul Hamid al-Astal, 18
'Arafat Msallam 'Abdul Karim Abu 'Eid, 22
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'Alaa' Mohammed Deeeb al-Ghannam, 21
Hayel Hassan al-Qadhi, 23
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Maria 3 juni 2010
Mazin al-Jamal, 48
Palestinian Man Dies After Being Hit by Israeli Army Jeep Near Hebron
Mazin al-Jamal, 48, was hit while trying to cross Road 60, a route used mainly by settlers and military forces. The road links Jerusalem with south of the West Bank. The road is also used by Palestinians moving between Hebron and Bethlehem.
The Israeli military rushed al-Jamal to an hospital in Israel, but he was pronounced dead a few hours later.
Israeli vehicle accidents involving Palestinian pedestrians are common in the West Bank, where few Palestinians have cars, and even fewer are allowed by Israel to drive their cars.
Although the cause of the accident is still unknown in this case, many cases have been documented in which Palestinians have been run down by either Israeli settlers or Israeli soldiers.
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Maria (4:09) Flotilla Row: Israeli Navy kills 4 'terrorist' divers, Iran to send aid ships to Gaza 1 x viewed 7 juni 2010
Israeli navy kills four Palestinians off Gaza coast
(2:19) 4 Palestinians Killed By Israeli Navy
Men wearing diving suits were on their way to carry out an attack in Israel, claims military spokesman.
At least four Palestinians were killed when Israeli navy commandos opened fire on what they said was a squad of militants in diving suits off the coast of Gaza today.
The Palestinians "were on their way to carry out an attack in Israel", a military spokesman said.
The spokesman declined to give any further details about how the military had identified the men or what they had been doing in the sea.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a militant offshoot of Fatah, said the men killed were members of its marine unit and had been training. One Palestinian was missing, and there were no Israeli casualties.
The attack follows a week in which the Israeli navy has faced international criticism for its assault on the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish ship in a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, in which nine activists were killed.
An anonymous military official told Israel's army radio yesterday: "This will be a shot in the arm for the commandos after the hard week they have been through."
Today's incident was followed by an air strike on what the military spokesman described as "terrorists trying to fire rockets into Israel" from the northern Gaza Strip.
He could not confirm casualties, although at least one Palestinian was believed to have been seriously injured.
Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, said: "The bloody escalation today is a desperate attempt by the occupation government to divert the world attention away from the massacre committed against the flotilla."
Israel today released a list of five passengers aboard the Mavi Marmara whom it accused of having links with al-Qaida, Hamas and other militant organisations.
A statement from the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) named Ken O'Keefe, who it said was a US and British citizen, as a "radical anti-Israel activist and operative of the Hamas terror organisation".
"He attempted to enter the Gaza Strip in order to form and train a commando unit for the Palestinian terror organisation," the statement said.
The British Foreign Office said O'Keefe did not have UK citizenship, while his website says he renounced his US citizenship on 1 March 2001.
O'Keefe, due to be deported to Ireland by Israel after attempting to reach Gaza on the Mavi Marmara, rejected the charges as "slanderous".
The IDF said the other passengers with alleged terrorist links were Fatimah Mahmadi, a US resident; two Turkish citizens, Hassan Iynasi and Hussein Urosh; and a French citizen, Ahmad Ummimon.
According to Israeli media reports, the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has held at least half a dozen telephone conversations with world leaders over the past few days. He has faced intense pressure to agree to an international commission of inquiry into the assault on the aid flotilla.
The Israeli government is keen to deflect an international investigation, preferring an internal inquiry, possibly with limited US representation.
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Maria 7 juni 2010
Fayez Nahidh Mustafa al-Fairi, 20
Na'el Hashem Fakhri Qwaider, 34
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Maria 7 juni 2010
Four Fighters Killed In Gaza
Palestinian medical sources reported, Monday at dawn, that four fighters were killed by Israeli fire near the Gaza coast.
The attack was carried out approximately at 4:30am, at dawn, as the Navy opened heavy fire targeting the coast as some fighters were training on diving skills.
Dr. Moawiya Hassanen, head of the Emergency Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza, stated that the four were killed by Israeli Navy fire, and that they were near the coast of Al Zahra’, south of Gaza City.
Dr. Hassanen added that a fifth fighter remains missing, while another fighter suffered mild injuries.
The bodies of the four slain fighters were moved to the al-Aqsa Hospital in Gaza City; their bodies were riddled with gunshots, medical sources reported.
The Qatar-based al-Jazeera news agency reported that the fighters are members of the Ayman Joudah brigades that belongs to the al-Aqsa brigades, the armed wing of Fateh movement.
The four slain fighters were identified as Mohammad Thabit, 20, Ibrahim Al Waheedy, 25, Fayiz Al Feeny, 21, and Mohammad Qweidir, 28.
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Maria 7 juni 2010
Hamed Hussein Ahmed Thabet, 21
Ibrahim Mash'our Wajeeh al-Wihaidi, 23
Ziad Ahmad Muhammad Radi 23
Mahmoud Khalil Mohammed Radi, 26