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[update: IBN-CNN broadcast news reports that the Turkish government has pledged to send more supply vessels in the Gaza relief effort: "Ankara warned that further supply vessels will be sent to Gaza, escorted by the Turkish Navy, a development with unpredictable consequences."]

Last night 15 peace activists were killed and dozens wounded as Israeli forces attacked an unarmed humanitarian aid convoy in international waters off the Gaza Strip coast. Al Jazeera puts the death toll at nineteen, and some accounts report sixty wounded. Among the civilians aboard the six-ship convey carrying 10,000 tons of aid, including wheelchairs, bound for Gaza were an 85 year old Holocaust survivor, European legislators, and a Nobel Peace prize recipient.