Israeli Prime Minister Responds, Stands Behind Blockade

Meredith Jessup | June 02, 2010 2:09 PM

A couple of new videos out this afternoon. The first video is of Fox News' Megyn Kelly with new footage of Israeli soldiers trying to board the other flotilla ships which were trying to run through the blockade. Five ships were boarded without incident; the sixth resulted in nine people being killed. In the video, you can see the Israeli Defense Forces were being bombarded with water cannons, stun grenades and hurled metal chains:

The second video is of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking this afternoon and responding to international critics. The prime minister said this afternoon that his IDF had "no other choice" but to stop the flotilla of ships that were trying to break the Gaza blockade and stood behind the raid: