Israelis Kill 'Squad of Terrorists Wearing Diving Suits'

These maniacs just aren't going to quit with their nonsense so just keep putting them on ice.

Israeli forces on Monday shot dead four Palestinian 'commandos' off Gaza as the Jewish state scrambled to cope with mounting fallout over an earlier deadly sea battle.

A week after Israeli naval forces stormed a Gaza-bound aid boat, killing nine people, most of them Turkish, US Vice President Joe Biden said Washington was eyeing "new ways" to deal with Israel's blockade of the Hamas-ruled enclave.

And Ankara, still furious over the death of eight Turkish nationals in the raid, vowed that normalisation of ties with Israel would be out of the question if the Jewish state refused to accept an international inquiry into the attack.

Palestinian witnesses said they saw Israeli forces firing on a vessel off the coast of central Gaza at 4:00 am (0100 GMT).

Two hours later, four bodies in diving suits were pulled from the water, medical sources and witnesses said, describing the dead as "commandos."

Israel's military said it had attacked "a squad of terrorists wearing diving suits" on their way to launch an attack.

But survivor Abu al-Walid told AFP that while there were seven Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades members on board, there were "no arms in the boat," and that they had been engaged in "swimming training" at the time. Two had escaped and one was still missing, he said.

Sure, nothing like a 4 am swimming lesson.