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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (7) Slideshow Save Email Print Reprints Most Popular Most Shared WRAPUP 5-BP plans to capture 20,000 bpd from leaking well 11:00am EDT Euro hits multi-year low, recovers on short covering 9:38am EDT Israeli patrol kills four militants in diving suits 11:22am EDT Ex-Union Carbide officials sentenced over Bhopal leak 11:37am EDT Analysis: Obama and Democrats walk tightrope on oil spill 1:02am EDT World stocks hit by European debt and U.S. jobs | Video 11:00am EDT BP plans to capture 20,000 bpd from leaking well | Video 11:26am EDT Wall Street slips as selling pressure continues | Video 11:45am EDT Chrysler recalls nearly 600,000 vehicles 10:13am EDT Circumcision may prevent sex-related penis injuries 04 Jun 2010 Circumcision may prevent sex-related penis injuries 04 Jun 2010 Costa Rica puts brakes on popular stem cell tourism 1:06am EDT Chrysler recalls nearly 600,000 vehicles 10:13am EDT Ex-Union Carbide officials sentenced over Bhopal leak 11:37am EDT Euro hits multi-year low, recovers on short covering 9:38am EDT Restaurant tells diners to eat up or else 04 Jun 2010 BP plans to capture 20,000 bpd from leaking well | Video 11:49am EDT Analysis: Obama and Democrats walk tightrope on oil spill 1:02am EDT Yahoo users to gain more access to Facebook 06 Jun 2010 World stocks hit by European debt and U.S. jobs | Video 11:00am EDT Israel rejects international inquiry into lethal raid Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM Mon Jun 7, 2010 9:42am EDT Related News Timeline: Main events in the Gaza flotilla affair 8:56am EDT Crisis may hurt Turkish-Israeli trade: officials 9:42am EDT 1 / 16 Pro-Palestinian activists hold down an Israeli commando on the Gaza-bound Turkish ship Mavi Marmara in the international waters of Mediterranean sea early May 31, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Adem Ozkose/Gercek Hayat Magazine via IHH/Handout JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel rejected Sunday a proposal by U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon for an international investigation into its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship and said it had the right to launch its own inquiry. World "We are rejecting an international commission. We are discussing with the Obama administration a way in which our inquiry will take place," Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to Washington, said on the U.S. TV program "Fox News Sunday." The U.N. chief had suggested establishing a panel that would be headed by former New Zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer and include representatives from Turkey, Israel and the United States, an Israeli official said earlier in Jerusalem. Netanyahu discussed the proposal for a multinational panel with Ban in a telephone call Saturday but told cabinet ministers from his right-wing Likud party Sunday that Israel was exploring other options, political sources said. Nine Turks were killed Monday in the Israeli commando raid on the Mavi Marmara, part of a six-vessel convoy that set out to challenge an Israeli-led blockade of the Gaza Strip. Israel has said its troops used lethal force in self-defense after they were set upon by pro-Palestinian activists wielding clubs and knives. Israeli leaders have spoken publicly about setting up an internal investigation with foreign observers into the interception of the Turkish-flagged ship off the coast of Gaza, an enclave run by Hamas Islamists who oppose Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's peace efforts with Israel. "Israel is a democratic nation. Israel has the ability and the right to investigate itself, not to be investigated by any international board," Oren said. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, speaking on CNN, said Ankara would insist on an independent commission and suggested that Israel's rejection of an international inquiry showed it wanted to cover up the facts of the raid. "We want to know the facts. If Israel rejects this, it means it is also another proof of their guilt. They are not self-confident to face the facts," he said. Turkey's relations with Israel, once a close ally, have soured badly since the deadly raid. SECOND INTERCEPTION Israel's navy boarded another ship carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists to Gaza Saturday. Its interception of the Irish-owned MV Rachel Corrie ended without violence following diplomatic efforts to avoid bloodshed. "I want to pay tribute to the crew of the Rachel Corrie for demonstrating in no uncertain terms their peaceful intentions," Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin told Irish public radio RTE. "We of course communicated that relentlessly to the Israeli authorities." An Israeli official said Israel wanted to establish whether the Turkish government had sponsored the Mavi Marmara, where the strength of the resistance to the boarding party appeared to have caught the Israeli military off guard. Israel has said seven of its troops were wounded. Netanyahu said at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting that a smaller group of "violent extremists" had boarded the ship separately with the intention of clashing with troops. Photographs obtained by Reuters Sunday that were shot on board the Mavi Marmara showed bleeding and cowering Israeli troops surrounded by activists. The photographs were taken by a member of the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Aid, or IHH, which organized the convoy, said spokesman Salih Bilici. Israeli authorities confiscated activists' cameras and erased the memory cards but the IHH was able to recover photos on one camera using special software, Bilici said. There are no pictures of outright violence but many of the photographs show puddles of blood on the floor or streaks smeared across walls. Israel has said it must prevent arms smuggling to Gaza, and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Sunday the European Union could help monitor traffic into the territory. "We can propose again that the European Union, European countries, monitor this passage in a very strict manner ... We can very well monitor the cargoes of ships going to Gaza," he told reporters. France and Britain offered to send warships to monitor and prevent arms smuggling to Gaza following Israel's 22-day offensive in the Palestinian Hamas-ruled territory that ended in January last year. Together with Egypt, Israel tightened its blockade on the Gaza Strip after Hamas Islamists took over the coastal territory in 2007 in fighting with forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. World pressure has mounted on Israel to lift the blockade which the U.N. said has caused a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and hampers efforts to rebuild homes and infrastructure destroyed in a 2009 war. Israel says its frequent transfer of basic goods to the territory has staved off any such crisis. (Additional reporting by Philip Barbara in Washington, Ari Rabinovitch in Jerusalem and Dublin, Istanbul and Paris bureaux; Editing by Charles Dick) World Comments See All Comments (7) | Post Comment Jun 07, 2010 7:24am EDT The whole world watched Israeli Commandos keeling 19 innocent humanitarians in international water! Israel is a sponsor of terrorism and piracy! If the world is going to let such crimes by Israel go unpunished, then you can put the International Law in a toilet and suffer the consequences, for the shoe will be on the other foot soon… Amomani Report As Abusive Jun 07, 2010 8:07am EDT “We are rejecting an international commission. We are discussing with the Obama administration a way in which our inquiry will take place,” Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to Washington, said on the U.S. TV program “Fox News Sunday.” Replace inquiry with cover-up and you’d probably have it right… of course then it wouldn’t be on Fox News! When Israel abides by International Law, as they expect others to, I will listen to what they have to say. Until then, I still want to know why the commandos cut the communications array on the ship under assault, with live reporting going on aboard ship, you’d think it could proved their side of the story. Apparently, they had something to hide. hadenough2 Report As Abusive Jun 07, 2010 9:01am EDT I am surprised! See Rachel Corrie’s Israeli “Investigation”and other Israeli inquiries in (non Palestinian)people killed by IDF: Tom Hurdall James Miller Alistair Sinclair Ian hook Tristan Anderson,survives but paralyzed GOLUM Report As Abusive Jun 07, 2010 9:25am EDT Did someone took some course in PhotoShop? man, you are waste of talent (too much with the cropping…) http://gazaflotilla.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/whos-cropping-these-pictures/ adi_biton Report As Abusive Jun 07, 2010 10:45am EDT When did the word humanitarian become a synonym for terrorist? When did “humanitarians” begin carrying metal pipes, chains, and knives? According to Leslie Gleb, former president of the Council on Foring Relations, the blockade was not only rational but perfectly LEGAL. Gaza, under Hamas is a self-declared enemy of Israel which has been proven by their history of firing more than 4,00 rockets into Israeli civilian territory. Yet, Hamas claims to be victims when Israel imposes a blockade to prevent Hamas from arming itself with more rockets. This was considered completely legal when, in WWII the U.S. blockaded Germany and Japan. This was considered completely legal during the 1962 missle crisis when the U.S. blockaded Cuba and arms-bearing Russian ships headed to Cuba turned back knowing the the U.S. Navy would would either board or sink them. Yet Israel is accused of international criminality for imposing a naval blockade to prevent a hostile state from acquiring lethal weaponry?! If the Gaza-bound ships were truly on a mission of humanitarian relief, they would have accepted Israel’s offer to bring their supplies to an Israeli port, be inspected for military material and have the rest trucked by Israel into Gaza–as every week 10,000 tons of food, medicine and other humanitarian supplies are sent by Israel to Gaza. moonchild7673 Report As Abusive Jun 07, 2010 11:05am EDT I don’t see how Israel can survive. The USA is furious. bagsjr Report As Abusive Jun 07, 2010 11:35am EDT Israel will survive. moonchild7673 Report As Abusive See All Comments (7) Add a Comment *We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language or appear to be spam and review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. 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