This clip depicts protestors trying to stop the IDF soldiers from boarding their ship - in international waters - by spraying them with low-pressure water hoses, and by attempting to intimidate the IDF soldiers by waving metal bars and chains in the air. There is also one object thrown from the ship, which the IDF describes as a box of plates, and something else seems to ignite after being thrown from the Mavi Marmara. There were protests here in Dublin in 2006, at which the protestors exhibited similar amounts of violence, and the police did not kill nine people. They did not fire on the protestors with live ammunition, and neither did the many other western police forces which have to perform under such pressures recently.
Original text uploaded to YouTube with video, by the IDF:
In footage captured on the Mavi Marmara, activists are seen attacking the soldiers with a stun grenade, a box of plates, and water hoses as the soldiers attempt to board the ship. the activists are also waiving around metal rods and chains later used to attack the soldiers with. The IDF soldiers were armed with paint ball guns (used for riot dispersal) and pistols which they were ordered to use only as a last resort. In the early hours of the 31st of May 2010, IDF soldiers boarded the ships of the "Free Gaza" Flotilla, after the ships refused to redirect their course. Aboard the Mavi Marmara the soldiers encountered serious violence when, in a preplanned attack, the activists on board lynched the soldiers with knives, metal rods and stole two of their guns. As a result 7 soldiers were injured and 9 activists were killed.
NOTE* No inclusion of dozens of injuries to activists, therefore, does the IDF equate an Israeli injury, to an activist death? IDF held all activists, so had access to the list of injured.