Palestine’s democratically elected Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh today strongly denounced the Zionist attack on the flotilla and the killing of scores of relief personnel, urging the international community to protect the aid mission.

The convoy made up of six ships carries 10,000 tons of supplies and hundreds of politicians, activists and journalists.

Haniyeh added: “We consider all those killed as martyrs for the cause of Palestine and martyrs of the siege on Gaza.”

He called on the Arab world to wake up to realities about the Zionist entity, and advised the so-called Palestinian Authority to end all its compromising talks with Israel.