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Scotland Yard has been asked to investigate whether Israeli special
forces who attacked a "peace flotilla" of ships in international waters
killing 10 people committed war crimes. Lawyers acting for British
activists have launched legal proceedings in the hope of prosecuting the
Israeli soldiers in the UK.
Evidence passed to the Metropolitan Police names five Israeli
military commanders alleged to have committed war crimes when the troops
they commanded stormed the flotilla which was attempting to breach
Israel's blockade of Gaza in May 2010.
Lawyers representing 13 of
the 34 Britons on the Turkish-registered MV Mavi Marmara, the main
civilian vessel in the fleet of six ships carrying humanitarian aid and
construction materials, say some of the commanders had visited Britain
since the incident and said the police now had evidence which should
result in their arrest if they return. Identical legislation was used to
arrest the Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet in the UK in 1998.
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