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Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Footage: Israeli-designated Turkish terror organization seen operating in Gaza
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleNurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent
The Turkish aid organization IHH, which is designated in Israel as a terror organization and which organized the 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla to Gaza, publishes footage showing its personnel conducting aid activities in the Gaza Strip.
Today, the organization shared video of water being distributed in the Strip using tankers marked with Turkish flags and the group’s banners.
On October 18, IHH also posted footage of bulldozers clearing rubble in the territory, also bearing Turkish flags and the organization’s insignia.
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We need your support to heal the wounds.
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— IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation (@IHHen) October 21, 2025
“The Turkish aid organization İHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation has begun supporting efforts in northern Gaza, which has suffered great destruction, by providing humanitarian aid, as well as assisting with environmental cleanup, road clearing, and debris removal to restore basic living conditions following the ceasefire,” Salih Mutlu Şen, the Turkish ambassador to Egypt, posted on X on October 18.
IHH has been outlawed in Israel due to ties with Palestinian terror groups, and has also been banned in Germany and the Netherlands.
In the Mavi Marmara incident, 10 Turkish activists were killed in a violent confrontation with Israeli naval commandos aboard a ship that aimed to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza.
Jeremy Sharon contributed to this report.
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