GAZA, June 7 (UPI) -- Pictures of pro-Palestinian activists overpowering Israeli troops as they stormed a Gaza-bound aid ship surfaced as Iran offered to escort other relief ships.
The photos, taking by an unidentified person on the Turkish-flagged Mavi Marmara, prompted Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev to say the photos show "our boarding party in fact did face deadly violence from the hardcore (Islamic) activists on the boat from the fundamentalists," The Daily Mail reported Monday.