Thread:Comments:MV Rachel Corrie seized by Israeli Naval Forces/Comments from feedback form - ""This comes after the death of..."/reply (19)

The Israelis first boarded with paintball guns loaded with pepper balls, essentially pepper spray, and handguns as a last resort, they only resorted to those after several Commandos had been seriously injured and their handguns taken and shot at Israelis. A second chopper dropped off more Commandos to relieve the ones who were under attack, this time armed with rifles. Watch the video, the "peace activists" are swinging flails before they are even on the boat. Tear gas is banned in armed conflict by the UN, so they could not use that, and flair guns can seriously burn someone, pepperballs were a better choice. The Israelis had every right under the law of the sea to inspect a vessel in a blockade zone, or that has the intentions of breaching the blockade.