Monday 20100531 – Ml Ravat spoke to Yusef El Helo,Press TV journalists, as well as Moulana Ihsaan Hendriks about Israel's disgraceful attack on the Freedom ships.  The death toll from the Israeli navy's takeover of a Gaza aid convoy has risen to 20 while Israel carefully censors reports on the casualties from the attack.

 The fleet came under fire early this morning by Israeli navy forces in international waters more than 150km off the coast of Gaza. The six-ship aid fleet was stormed by commandos descending from helicopters. At least 20 people were killed in the takeover of the Gaza aid convoy with more than 50 people injured, including leader of the Palestinian Islamic Movement Sheikh Raed Salah.

 "(The interception on the convoy) is unacceptable … Israel will have to endure the consequences of this behaviour," the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement. Ismail Haniya, the Hamas leader in Gaza, has also dubbed the Israeli action as "barbaric". Hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists, including a Nobel laureate and several European legislators, were with the flotilla, aiming to reach Gaza in defiance of an Israeli embargo. The convoy came from the UK, Ireland, Algeria, Kuwait, Greece and Turkey, and was comprised of about 700 people from 50 nationalities. But Israel had said it would not allow the flotilla to reach the Gaza Strip and vowed to stop the six ships from reaching the coastal Palestinian territory.

  The flotilla had set sail from a port in Cyprus on Sunday and aimed to reach Gaza by Monday morning.