Israel 'to reject international ship raid inquiry'

Israel will adios a proposed all-embracing bureau to investigate its baleful arrest on a Gaza aid flotilla, its agent to the US has said.

Michael Oren told US anchorperson Fox Account that Israel has the adeptness and the appropriate to investigate its own military.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had beforehand telephoned Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu with the proposal.

Nine bodies died back Israeli commandos stormed the Turkish address aftermost week.

"We are abnegation an all-embracing commission. We are discussing with the Obama administering a way in which our analysis will booty place," Mr Oren told Fox Account Sunday.

He said Israel would not apologise for the incident. Eight of those dead were Turkish, and the ninth had collective US-Turkish nationality.

Europe action

Mr Netanyahu was due to altercate Mr Ban's angle with chief chiffonier ministers on Sunday.

But Mr Oren said: "Israel is a autonomous nation. Israel has the adeptness and the appropriate to investigate itself, not to be advised by any all-embracing board."

The proposed bureau would acquire included assembly from the US, Turkey and Israel and could acquire been headed by above New Zealand Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer.

The UK and France acquire apprenticed Israel to acquire an analysis involving all-embracing oversight.

Speaking at a account appointment with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, the UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said any analysis charge be "credible and transparent".

"We accept there should be an all-embracing attendance at minimum in that analysis or investigation," he said.

Mr Kouchner, in acknowledgment to criticism that Europe had not taken abundant action, said the EU was accommodating to analysis burden on ships activity into Gaza, and comedy added of a role in authoritative the Rafah bridge from Egypt to Gaza.

Activists deported

Meanwhile, Israel has been deporting activists who approved to captain addition aid address - the Rachel Corrie - to Gaza in affront of Israel's blockade.

Six Malaysians and a Cuban civic from the baiter were abandoned to Jordan on Sunday.

Five Irish nationals - including Nobel Accord laureate Mairead Maguire - and six Filipinos as able-bodied as the ship's Scottish captain, were due to fly out later.

Mr Netanyahu has declared those on lath the Irish-owned Rachel Corrie as "peace activists", but labelled the added barge - the Mavi Marmara - a "ship of abhorrence organised by agitated Turkish alarm extremists".

Post-mortem examinations in Turkey appear that 30 bullets had been begin in the victims' bodies - one activist had four in the head.

The BBC's Jonathan Head, in Istanbul, says some of the capacity assume to belie Israel's affirmation that their commandos acclimated minimum baleful force.

In addition development on Sunday, a chief Iranian aggressive amount said the country's aristocratic Revolutionary Guards were accessible to escort aid flotillas to Gaza if ordered to by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

"The Revolutionary Guards' argosy armament are absolutely able to escort abandon and accord flotillas accustomed altruistic aid from all over the apple to the afflicted bodies of Gaza," Ali Shirazi, Ayatollah Khamenei's argosy representative, told Mehr account agency.

Israel stepped up its barricade of Gaza in 2007, back the Islamist Hamas movement took ascendancy of the territory, and says its behavior will not change while Hamas charcoal in power.