Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells the commander of the Israeli Navy force that intercepted the latest Gaza flotilla that they managed to stop the ships with much less noise than the organizers intended.
“You are doing an outstanding job, both in the first flotilla and in this part as well, and are effectively thwarting a malicious plan intended to break the isolation we are imposing on Hamas terrorists in Gaza,” he says to the commander of the navy’s Missile Ship Fleet, the navy’s main surface warfare arm, speaking on the force’s radio.
“You are doing this with great success, and I must say also, quietly, and certainly with less publicity than our enemies expected,” says Netanyahu.
The conversation was part of Netanyahu’s visit with Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen Eyal Zamir to the navy’s operational headquarters at the Kirya in Tel Aviv. They also received a briefing from navy chief Vice Adm. Eyal Harel, according to Netanyahu’s office.
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