Six years after Israeli naval commandos killed nine Turkish citizens during a violent clash on a Turkish-flagged ship trying to breach Israel’s naval blockade of the Gaza Strip, the two countries are set to sign a reconciliation deal that has angered many in Israel. The deal, which the Israeli Prime Minister will sign in Rome today, at the same time that the Turkish Foreign Minister will sign it in Ankara calls for Israel to transfer $21 million to a humanitarian fund that will provide aid to the families of those killed. In exchange Turkey will drop all lawsuits against Israeli army officers in Turkey. According to the deal, Israel and Turkey will re-establish full diplomatic relations with an exchange of ambassadors. Turkey dropped its demand that the blockade on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip be lifted in exchange for an Israeli pledge to allow Turkish aid to reach Gaza via Israel. Israel will also allow Turkey to build a new power plant and hospital in Gaza as well as a desalination plant, in cooperation with Germany. The agreement was sharply criticized in Israel, even from within Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, because there is no clause dealing with the return of two Israeli civilians who have been missing in Gaza for almost two years or the return of the bodies of two Israeli soldiers killed in fighting. Several Likud politicians called the agreement a “surrender” to Turkey, and said Israel should not be paying compensation since activists aboard the Mavi Marmara ship attacked Israeli soldiers.