OCCUPIED JURUSALEM (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu has described the Freedom Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip as a "provocation".
He told the ambassadors of the European Union in a meeting on Monday that that the provocative voyage slated for mid May might ignite tension in the entire region.
Netanyahu said that the fleet was not on a peace trip but rather on a provocative one, denying presence of any crisis in Gaza. He claimed that the Palestinians in Gaza "do not lack anything".
He asked the European envoys to convey a message to their governments not to allow the sail of this fleet from their ports, adding, "This flotilla must be stopped."
The premier said that all those keen on maintaining calm in the region should act to "restrain such provocation".
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