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The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor says she will not take action over Israel's deadly commando raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010, the BBC reported.

Fatou Bensouda said this was despite a "reasonable basis to believe that war crimes... were committed on one of the vessels, the Mavi Marmara."

She said the ICC had to prioritise war crimes committed on a large scale.

Nine Turkish activists were killed on the ship as it attempted to breach a blockade of the Hamas-run territory.

Ten Israeli soldiers were injured in the incident, which caused deep rift between Israel and Turkey, former allies.

Ms Bensouda said she did not want to minimise "the impact of the alleged crimes on the victims and their families" but she had to be guided by the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the ICC.

"I have concluded that the potential case(s) likely arising from an investigation into this incident would not be of 'sufficient gravity' to justify further action by the ICC," she said in a statement.

Ms Bensouda said she had referred to the reports of the various inquiries that have previously examined the incident in making her decision.