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Netanyahu Calls Flotilla Raid Criticism Hypocrisy Amid Probe Calls
Loading ...Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said criticism of Israel’s raid against a Gaza Strip aid shipment that left nine dead was “hypocrisy,” as international calls for a probe into the incident mounted.
“Israel is told it has the right to defend itself, but when we do exercise that right we’re condemned for it,” Netanyahu said in a nationally televised address in Jerusalem. “Israel should not be held to a double standard.”
Israel has faced international criticism over the May 31 raid by naval commandos on a flotilla of aid ships, as well as calls for it to lift restrictions on the flow of goods into Gaza. The incident has led to demands for Israel or others to investigate the raid on the ships that headed for Hamas- controlled Gaza in an effort to undermine Israel’s blockade.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters in New York that the blockade was “counter-productive, unsustainable and wrong,” and that it should end “immediately.” Israel “must provide as soon as possible a full and detailed accounting of the events surrounding this incident,” he said.
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