When asked whether he would act similarly today, Yadlin said what happened in Mavi Marmara was a great mistake and with the experience, nothing like what happened in the past would occur today.
Amos Yadlin, a fighter jet pilot during Yom Kippur War also took part in a controversial strike on Osirak Nuclear Reactor in Iraq in 1981. Yadlin retired from active duty when he was a major general in 2010.
On May 30, 2010, Israeli special forces had attacked a Turkish ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists to Gaza in a bid to penetrate an embargo imposed by Israeli state on Gaza in the international waters of the Mediterranean, killing 8 Turkish and 1 US citizens on board.
A court case against the Israeli officials who authorized and ordered the attack continues at Istanbul 7th High Criminal Court.
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