Israeli PM tells European ambassadore Freedom flotilla 2 "must be stopped"

Once again, the Israeli enemy is seeking to prevent freedom flotillas aimed at breaking the inhumane siege of the Gaza Strip…

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Europe to do what it can to prevent its nationals from taking part in a flotilla scheduled to depart for Gaza in late May.

"This flotilla must be stopped," Netanyahu told European ambassadors in occupied Jerusalem.

The Cyprus-headquartered international Free Gaza movement and other pro-Palestinian organizations plan to send more than 15 ships to Gaza. They are scheduled to set sail around the anniversary of last year's lethal interception by Israel of the "Freedom Flotilla."

"If Israeli authorities thought that their attack on Freedom Flotilla 1 last year would break our momentum and scare us away from sailing to Gaza again, they were wrong," Free Gaza said in a statement on its website. "We are now organizing Freedom Flotilla 2, scheduled to set sail in late May 2011, with twice as many vessels as we had last year."