Five IDF soldiers wounded during the operation to divert the Gaza-bound flotilla are still hospitalized. Four of them, including the two who were originally seriously wounded, are listed in moderate condition, and one is listed in light condition.
Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, the IDF Chief of Staff, visited some of them Tuesday morning in the Rambam Hospital in Haifa. He heard first-hand their accounts of what happened on the S.S. Marmaris, onto which they rappelled down only to find themselves facing a lynch mob. Ashkenazi praised what he called their “extraordinary” actions.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, returning from North America after having cut short his trip without meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama, plans to make a stop at Tel HaShomer Hospital to visit some of the wounded. He is scheduled to arrive around 2:30 PM. Netanyahu said he wished to visit the soldiers before continuing on to Jerusalem.
Nine terror activists were killed, and another two are in very serious or critical condition. Thirteen are in serious condition, and another 25 are in light or moderate condition.