Two German parliamentarians and a former MP arrived safe in Berlin on Tuesday following an Israeli raid on a naval aid convoy for the Gaza Strip. All three politicians denied Israeli claims that those on board had been armed and provoked the violence.
Left party parliamentarians Annette Groth and Inge Höger, in addition to former Left party PM Norman Paech, were aboard the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara when Israeli forces stormed the deck, killing an estimated 19 people and reportedly wounding dozens of others.
The three visibly shaken German politicians who arrived back in Berlin on Tuesday morning said that those on their ship had not been armed as the Israelis claim.
