List of participants in the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla

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There were 688 participants on the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla from 41 nations. The flotilla was raided and captured by Israeli naval forces on 31 May 2010, when nine participants were killed and seven IDF commandos were injured.

Notable flotilla passengers included Mairead Corrigan, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Denis Halliday, former UN Assistant Secretary-General, Edward Peck, former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım, the İHH president, Haneen Zoabi, an Israeli-Arab member of Knesset, Raed Salah, the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Hilarion Capucci, a retired titular archbishop previously convicted by Israel of smuggling arms to the Palestine Liberation Army.

Nationalities

These are the nationalities participated:[1][2]

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Gaza flotilla participants killed in the raid

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NameNationalityAgeKnown forShip
İbrahim BilgenTurkey61Turkish politician and candidate for mayor of Siirt.[3]MV Mavi Marmara
Çetin TopçuoğluTurkey53Former National level Turkish taekwondo athlete and national coach.[4] Before departing, he left a letter hinting that he expected to die a martyr, and called on others to aspire to a similar death.[5]MV Mavi Marmara
Furkan DoğanUnited States18American of Turkish origin traveling with a US passport, high-school student, living in Turkey.[6] His father says that he only holds American citizenship, contrary to some media reports.MV Mavi Marmara
Cengiz AkyüzTurkey41from Iskenderun, port city of southern Turkey.[7]MV Mavi Marmara
Ali Heyder Bengi Turkey 39 a Kurdish man from Diyarbakir,[7] chairman of Aydınlık Yarınlar İçin Hak ve Özgürlükler Eğitim Kültür ve Dayanışma Derneği (AYDER),[8] graduate of Al-Azhar University, owner of a telephone repair shop, married and father of four children.[9] In his funeral in Diyarbakır people shouted "Sehidin Namirin" slogan in Kurdish. His wife said in an interview that he had wanted to reach Palestine for many years, and that he "had an intense desire to die as a shaheed."[5] MV Mavi Marmara
Cevdet KılıçlarTurkey38a journalist born in the central Turkish town of Kayseri, Anatolian said. He was also employed by the İHH in Istanbul.[7] In a recorded statement found aboard the Mavi Marmara, Kılıçlar praised militants in Afghanistan and expressed a desire to meet a "happy ending" like the "shaheeds" killed in Afghanistan.[5]MV Mavi Marmara
Cengiz SongürTurkey47from İzmir.[7] He left a will prior to his departure.[5][10]MV Mavi Marmara
Fahri YaldızTurkey43a firefighter and father of four from the southern town of Adıyaman, Anatolian reported.[7] His brother Habip told the agency that Fahri had long wanted to die fighting in Israel to become a "martyr." Killed by the IDF in the raid.[7] Prior to his departure, he announced that he was going to die as a shaheed.[5]MV Mavi Marmara
Necdet YıldırımTurkey32originally from Malatya, worked for the İHH.[7]MV Mavi Marmara
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People on board the raided Gaza flotilla ships, excluding those killed

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NameNationalityKnown forShip
Fehmi Bülent YıldırımTurkeyİHH president[11]MV Mavi Marmara
Erdinç TekirTurkeyAn Abkhaz descent Turkish IHH activist and hijacker convicted for the Black Sea hostage crisis.[12][13]MV Mavi Marmara[14]
Uğur Süleyman SönmezTurkeya 46-year-old Turkish citizen from Ankara, neighbor of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.[15] Sönmez was shot in the raid.[16] On 23 May 2014, he died in hospital after being in a coma for four years.[17]MV Mavi Marmara
Jerry CampbellAustraliaAustralian activistMV Mavi Marmara[18]
Kate GeraghtyAustraliaThe Sydney Morning Herald photographer[19]Challenger 1
Paul McGeoughAustraliaThe Sydney Morning Herald journalist[19]Challenger 1
Ahmed TalibAustraliaAustralian activistMV Mavi Marmara[18]
Maryam TalibAustralia19-year-old student of Journalism at Griffith University, Australia.MV Mavi Marmara
Iara LeeBrazilBrazilian filmmaker[20]MV Mavi Marmara
Svetoslav IvanovBulgariaBTV reporter[21]MV Mavi Marmara
Naim ElghandourEgypt/GreeceExiled Egyptian with Greek passport, was cook on the Eleftheri MesogeiosEleftheri Mesogeios[22]
Annette GrothGermanyMember of the German Bundestag[23]MV Mavi Marmara
Inge HögerGermanyMember of the German Bundestag[23]MV Mavi Marmara
Norman PaechGermanyFormer member of the German Bundestag[23]MV Mavi Marmara
Haneen ZoubiIsraelIsraeli-Arab member of Knesset, representing the Balad party. She is the first woman to be elected to the Knesset on an Arab party's list.[24][25]MV Mavi Marmara
Raed SalahIsraelLeader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel, previously convicted by Israeli court for raising money for Hamas[26][27]MV Mavi Marmara
Wael SaqqaJordanHead of the Jordanian delegation and the ex-president of the Jordanian Engineers Association[28]MV Mavi Marmara
Waleed Al-TabtabaieKuwaitMember of Kuwaiti parliament[29]MV Mavi Marmara
Nadeem Ahmed KhanPakistanHuman Rights Activist and Chairman Khubaib Foundation[30]MV Mavi Marmara
Talat HussainPakistanJournalist and executive director AAJ TV[31]MV Mavi Marmara
Hilarion CapucciSyriaRetired titular archbishop for the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, previously convicted by an Israeli court of using smuggling arms to the Palestine Liberation Army and sentenced to 12 years in prison.[32][33]MV Mavi Marmara
Jamal ElshayyalQatarNews producer for Al Jazeera English[34][35]MV Mavi Marmara
Edda MangaSwedenSwedish historian[36]MV Mavi Marmara
Henning MankellSwedenSwedish authorEleftheri Mesogeios[37]
Dror FeilerSwedenSwedish-Israeli artistEleftheri Mesogeios[37]
Mattias GardellSwedenSwedish historian[36]MV Mavi Marmara[38]
Mehmet KaplanSwedenTurkish-born member of the Parliament of SwedenEleftheri Mesogeios[37]
Viktoria SandSwedenSwedish physicianEleftheri Mesogeios[37]
Hakan AlbayrakTurkeyTurkish journalist[39]MV Mavi Marmara
Sinan AlbayrakTurkeyTurkish actor[40]MV Mavi Marmara
Elif AkkuşTurkeyTurkish television journalist reporting the Flotilla raid for TRT[41]MV Mavi Marmara
Mediha OlgunTurkeyTurkish journalist and author of the book, "Mavi Marmara'da ne oldu" on Gaza Flotilla raid[42]MV Mavi Marmara
Ya'akov Bolinet AlniakTurkeyWrote a book about the raid, joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant army and was killed in American airstrikes on ISIS in September 2014.[43]MV Mavi Marmara
Hassan GhaniUnited KingdomScottish journalist and documentary maker[44] Press TV reporter[45]MV Mavi Marmara
Theresa McDermottUnited KingdomScottish activist found in Ramleh prison four days after an attempted Gaza aid mission in 2009[44]Challenger 1
Ismail PatelUnited KingdomFriends of Al-Aqsa [46][47]MV Mavi Marmara
Fatimah MahmadiUnited StatesMember of the organization Viva Palestina which the IDF claims attempted to smuggle forbidden electronic components into the Gaza Strip.[48]MV Mavi Marmara
Huwaida ArrafUnited StatesCo-founder of the International Solidarity Movement[49][50]Challenger 1
Joe MeadorsUnited StatesA survivor of the USS Liberty incident[51]Sfendoni
Kenneth O'KeefeUnited States and United KingdomFormer U.S. Marine and currently a peace and justice activist.[48] The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) claimed that O'Keefe was linked to terrorist organizations, that he was an extremist who whose goal was to reach Gaza in order to help train and establish Hamas commando units.[52][53]MV Mavi Marmara
Edward PeckUnited StatesFormer U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Mauritania[54]Sfendoni
Ann WrightUnited StatesFormer U.S. Army colonel and former US diplomat. In 2003 she resigned her State Department post to protest the war in Iraq[55]Challenger 1
Scott HamannUnited StatesVideo producer [56]Challenger 1
Petr ZavadilCzech RepublicCzech TV reporter[57]Sfendoni
Jan LínekCzech RepublicCzech TV cameraman[57]Sfendoni
Mario DamolinGermanyGerman journalist and authorEleftheri Mesogeios[37]
Matthias JochheimGermanyGerman IPPW representative[58]MV Mavi Marmara
Nadel El SakkaGermanyRepresentative of the Palestinian community in Germany[58]MV Mavi Marmara
Aris ChatzistefanouGreeceSkai 100.3 journalist[59]MV Mavi Marmara
Michalis Grigoropoulos | GreeceGreek activistEleftheri Mesogeios[60]
Katerina KitidiGreeceTVXS.gr news website journalist[59]Sfendoni [61]
Manolis MatchioulakisGreeceSolar energy expert from Athens[22]
Aris PapadokostopoulosGreeceCaptain of the Eleftheri MesogeiosEleftheri Mesogeios[60]
Vangelis PissiasGreeceSixty-three-year-old professor of water engineering at Technical University of AthensEleftheri Mesogeios[37]
Maria PsaraGreeceEthnos (see List of Greek newspapers) journalist[59]MV Mavi Marmara
Giorgos KlontzasGreeceprofessional diver and pilot [62]Challenger 2
Zaharias StilianakisGreeceCaptain of the Eleftheri MesogeiosEleftheri Mesogeios[60]
Abbas NasserLebanonAljazeera news journalist[63]MV Mavi Marmara
Lubna MasarwaState of Palestineactivist [62]MV Mavi Marmara
Ewa JasiewiczPolandactivist and freelance journalist [62]Challenger 1
Yasser Muhammad SabagSyria, BosniaAccording to Serbian news sources, a Syrian intelligence officer serving as the liaison officer between Damascus and Tehran's intelligence networks in the Balkans. In the past, Sabag was in charge of intelligence in the Abu Nidal militant organization.[64][65][66][67]MV Mavi Marmara
Srđan StojiljkovićSerbiaSerbian Cameraman[68]MV Mavi Marmara
Sümeyye ErtekinTurkeyTurkish journalist[39]MV Mavi Marmara
Ayşe SarıoğluTurkeyTurkish journalist, joined Flotilla Free Media after the Gaza flotilla raid[69]MV Mavi Marmara
Mustafa ÖzcanTurkeyTurkish journalist[39]MV Mavi Marmara
Ümit SönmezTurkeyTurkish journalist[39]MV Mavi Marmara
Murat PalavarTurkeyTurkish journalist[39]MV Mavi Marmara
Ali Ekber YaratılmışTurkeyFormer Turkish taekwondo athlete and national referee. He was wounded in the raid but not dead contrary to the Israeli sources' claim.[70]MV Mavi Marmara
Çigdem TopçuoğluTurkeywife of Çetin Topçuoglu, was also aboard the Mavi Marmara, but survivedMV Mavi Marmara
Ahmet VarolTurkeyJournalist and author[71]MV Mavi Marmara
Ibrahim SediyaniTurkeyJournalist and author[71]MV Mavi Marmara
Rıdvan KayaTurkeyAuthor[71]MV Mavi Marmara
Ramazan KayanTurkeyAuthor[71]MV Mavi Marmara
Abbas Al LawatiOmanDubai-based Gulf News journalist[72]MV Mavi Marmara
Bilal Abdul AzizItalyEnglish teacher of Great Britain[22]
Alex HarrisonUnited Kingdoma 31-year-old British woman [62]Challenger 1
Kevin OvendenUnited KingdomViva Palestina charity [62]MV Mavi Marmara
Parveen YaqubUnited Kingdom39, from Huddersfield, a council worker [73]MV Mavi Marmara.
Denis HealeyUnited Kingdomcaptain of Challenger 1, skippered one of the previous flotillas [62]Challenger 1
Gehad SukkerUnited Kingdoma pizza shop manager from Altrincham in Cheshire[62]MV Mavi Marmara
David SchermerhornUnited States80, an American film producer [74][75]Challenger 1
Gene St. OngeUnited StatesOakland, CA-based civil/structural engineer, who is working with Palestinian engineers to rebuild housing destroyed in Israel's 2009 invasion of Gaza [76]Sfendoni
Paul LarudeeUnited StatesEl Cerrito, CA, a piano tuner and FPM co-founder, who also co-founded The Free Gaza Movement, the movement that first broke the siege of Gaza in 2008 [76]Sfendoni
Janet KobrenUnited StatesAmerican Jewish, retired math teacher and co-founder of the California-based Free Palestine Movement [76][77]Sfendoni
Kathy SheetzUnited Statesa retired nurse from Richmond, CA, and Woods Hole, MA[75]Challenger 1
Khalid TuraaniUnited Stateswho was founder and executive director of the former American Muslims for Jerusalem and now lives in Dubai.[75]MV Mavi Marmara
Nicola EnchmarchNew ZealandHumanitarian Aid Worker [78]MV Mavi Marmara
Amin Abu RashidNetherlandsHe is considered by Israeli intelligence to be the chief Hamas fundraiser in Western Europe, and allegedly had close ties with the senior Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. According to the IHH publications, he lost his hand "in the struggle against the occupation". In interviews, he declared that he was planning to confront the IDF soldiers.[64][65][66]MV Mavi Marmara
Valentin VassilevBulgariaBTV cameraman[21]MV Mavi Marmara
Shane DillonIrelandCrew[79]Challenger 1
Fintan LaneIrelandIrish historian and activist[79]Challenger 1
Fiachra O LuainIrelandActivist[79]Challenger 1
Ahmad UmimonFranceAlleged by the IDF to be an operative of Hamas[48]MV Mavi Marmara
Marcello FaraggiItalyItalian journalist from BrusselsEleftheri Mesogeios[37]
Noorazman Mohd Samsuddin Malaysia Malaysia's Haluan Palestin chairperson[80] MV Mavi Marmara
Mohd Arba'ai Shawal Malaysia Malaysia's Haluan Palestin activist[80] MV Mavi Marmara
Syed Muhammad Haleem Syed Hassan Malaysia Malaysia's Haluan Palestin activist[80] MV Mavi Marmara
Al Hami Husain Suhaimi Malaysia Malaysia's Haluan Palestin activist[80] MV Mavi Marmara
Mohd Nizam Mohd Awang Malaysia Malaysia's Haluan Palestin activist[80] MV Mavi Marmara
Hasanuddin Mohd Yunus Malaysia Malaysia's Aqsa Syarif president[80] MV Mavi Marmara
Selamat Aliman Malaysia Malaysia's Aqsa Syarif treasurer[80] MV Mavi Marmara
Jamuliddin Elias Malaysia Yayasan Amal Malaysia deputy president[80] MV Mavi Marmara
Abdul Halim Mohd Redzuan Malaysia Muslim Care Malaysia activist[80] MV Mavi Marmara
Mustafa Mansur Malaysia representative of Malaysia Consultative Council of Islamic Organisation (MAPIM)[80] MV Mavi Marmara
Ashwad Ismail Malaysia Malaysia's Astro Awani journalist[80] MV Mavi Marmara
Shamsul Kamal Latif Malaysia Malaysia's Astro Awani cameraman[80] MV Mavi Marmara
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MV Rachel Corrie Passengers

Some people who were on board MV Rachel Corrie are:

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NameNationalityKnown for
Mairead CorriganUnited KingdomNobel Peace Prize laureate
Denis HallidayIrelandUN Assistant Secretary-General [81]
Derek GrahamIrelandHuman rights activist now living in Gaza [82]
Jenny GrahamIrelandHuman rights activist now living in Gaza [82]
Mohd Nizar ZakariaMalaysiamember of Parliament of Malaysia[83][84]
Shamsul Akmar Musa Kamal Malaysia Perdana Global Peace Organisation member[84]
Matthias Chang Malaysia Perdana Global Peace Organisation member[84]
Ahmad Faizal Azumu Malaysia Perdana Global Peace Organisation member[84]
Halim Mohamed Malaysia Malaysia's TV3 journalist[84]
Mohd Jufri Judin Malaysia Malaysia's TV3 cameraman[84]
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