Personally, I would have just sunk one of the boats and threatened to the sink the rest. If compliance didn’t follow, there’d be a whole lot of new scrap metal on the bottom of the Med right now.
The “peace” ‘flotilla’ had the opportunity to peacefully have their ships and their “humanitarian aid” cargo inspected and permission to enter Gaza by Israeli IDF but they choose the confrontation instead of “peaceful” interaction.
This was clearly intentional provocation with the classic MO using non combatants, women and children as shields and ‘peace’ as the premise knowing full well the intent was only confrontation.
The international media are fools.