JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel rejected on Sunday a proposal by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for an international investigation into its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship.

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, speaking on CNN, said Ankara would insist on an independent commission and suggested that Israel's rejection of an international inquiry showed it wanted to cover up the facts of the deadly assault.
“We want to know the facts. If Israel rejects this, it means it is also another proof of their guilt. They are not self-confident to face the facts,” he said.
Turkey's relations with Israel, once a close ally, have soured badly since the deadly raid.
“We are rejecting an international commission. We are discussing with the Obama administration a way in which our inquiry will take place,” Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to Washington, said on the U.S. TV program “Fox News Sunday.”
The UN chief had suggested establishing a panel that would be headed by former New Zealand prime minister Geoffrey Palmer and include representatives from Turkey, Israel and the United States, an Israeli official said earlier in Jerusalem.
Netanyahu discussed the proposal for a multinational panel with Ban in a telephone call on Saturday but told cabinet ministers from his right-wing Likud party on Sunday that Israel was exploring other options, political sources said.
Nine Turks were killed on Monday in the Israeli commando raid on the Mavi Marmara, part of a six-vessel convoy that set out to challenge an Israeli-led blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Second interception
Israel's navy illegally boarded another ship carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists to Gaza on Saturday. Its interception of the Irish-owned MV Rachel Corrie ended without violence following diplomatic efforts to avoid bloodshed.
“I want to pay tribute to the crew of the Rachel Corrie for demonstrating in no uncertain terms their peaceful intentions,” Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin told Irish public radio RTE. “We of course communicated that relentlessly to the Israeli authorities.”
An Israeli official said Israel wanted to establish whether the Turkish government had sponsored the Mavi Marmara, where the strength of the resistance to the boarding party appeared to have caught the Israeli military off guard. Israel has said seven of its troops were wounded.
Photographs obtained by Reuters on Sunday that were shot on board the Mavi Marmara showed bleeding and cowering Israeli troops surrounded by activists.
The photographs were taken by a member of the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Aid, or IHH, which organized the convoy, said spokesman Salih Bilici.
Israeli authorities confiscated activists' cameras and erased the memory cards but the IHH was able to recover photos on one camera using special software, Bilici said.
There are no pictures of outright violence but many of the photographs show puddles of blood on the floor or streaks smeared across walls.
Together with Egypt, Israel tightened its blockade on the Gaza Strip after Hamas took over the coastal territory in 2007.
World pressure has mounted on Israel to lift the blockade which the UN said has caused a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and hampers efforts to rebuild homes and infrastructure destroyed in a 2009 war.
Photo: Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (L) leaves the U.S. State Department in Washington, DC, after private meetings with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on June 1, 2010. (Getty Images)
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